Come with me, Hugh, to the chapel.

We pray for His Holiness, giving thanks for his gracious letter and mandate; we praise for the safe return of my messenger.

But we will also offer up devout petition that the Prioress may have clear light at this parting of the ways, and that our enterprise may be brought to a happy conclusion." So, presently, in the dimly-lighted chapel, the Knight knelt alone; while, away at the high altar, remote, wrapt, absorbed in the supreme act of his priestly office, stood the Bishop, celebrating mass.
Yet one anxious prayer ascended from the hearts of both.
And, in the pale dawn of that new day, the woman for whom both the Knight and the Bishop prayed, kept vigil in her cell, before the shrine of the Madonna.
"Blessed Virgin," she said; "thou who lovedst Saint Joseph, being betrothed to him, yet didst keep thyself an holy shrine consecrate to the Lord and His need of thee--oh, grant unto me strength to put from me this constant torment at the thought of his sufferings to whom once I gave my troth, and to reconsecrate myself wholly to the service of my Lord." Thus these three knelt, as a new day dawned.
And the Knight prayed: "Give her to me!" And the Bishop prayed: "Guide her feet into the way of peace." And the Prioress, with hands crossed upon her breast and eyes uplifted, said: "Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto Thee." The silver streaks of the aurora paled before soaring shafts of gold, bright heralds of the rising sun.
Then from the Convent garden trilled softly the first notes, poignant but passing sweet, of the robin's song..