She made so great an effort to speak with calmness, that her voice sounded stern and hard.
"Why this talk of earthly loves, my Lord Bishop, in a place where all earthly love has been renounced and forgotten ?" The Bishop, seeing those trembling lips, ignored the hard tones, and answered, very tenderly, with a simple directness which scorned all evasion: "Because, my daughter, I am here to plead for Hugh.".