I was appointed to this See of Worcester, which appointment gave me the spiritual control of the White Ladies.

My friendship with the Prioress has been a source of interest, pleasure, and true helpfulness to myself and I trust to her also.

I think I told you while we supped that, many years ago, I had known her at the Court when I was confessor to the Queen, and preceptor to her ladies.

But no mention has ever been made between the Prioress and myself of any previous acquaintance.

I doubt whether she recognised, in the frail, white-haired, old prelate who arrived from Italy, the vigorous, bearded priest known to her, in her girlhood's days, as"-- the Bishop paused and looked steadily at the Knight--"as Father Gervaise." "Father Gervaise!" exclaimed Hugh d'Argent, lifting his hand to cross himself as he named the Dead, yet arrested in this instinctive movement by something in those keen blue eyes.