First, four beautiful boys, whose arms, necks, and legs were bare, showing the bronze complexion of the East, and contrasting with the snow-white tunics which they wore, entered the chapel by two and two.

The first pair bore censers, which they swung from side to side, adding double fragrance to the odours with which the chapel already was impregnated.

The second pair scattered flowers.
After these followed, in due and majestic order, the females who composed the choir--six, who from their black scapularies, and black veils over their white garments, appeared to be professed nuns of the order of Mount Carmel; and as many whose veils, being white, argued them to be novices, or occasional inhabitants in the cloister, who were not as yet bound to it by vows.

The former held in their hands large rosaries, while the younger and lighter figures who followed carried each a chaplet of red and white roses.

They moved in procession around the chapel, without appearing to take the slightest notice of Kenneth, although passing so near him that their robes almost touched him, while they continued to sing.