It is not a matter of pressing haste, by what I have gathered from your words ?" "No, not one of pressing haste.

Yet I would not long delay," answered the prior.

"I may not speak too openly, but there be reasons why I would have Brother Emmanuel beneath this roof once more.

I will leave thee one week to consider and to get the course of study completed.

At the week's end, methinks, I shall be constrained to bid Brother Emmanuel return home.