I pray you, Sister Antony, call not that sight again into my mind." "Then open the door, Mary Mark, and let me go." "Nay, that I dare not do." "Then, if I fail to do as bidden by the great Lord Bishop, I shall tell his lordship that thou, and thine obstinacy, stood in the way of the fulfilment of my purpose." The porteress wavered.
"Bring me leave from the Reverend Mother, Sister Antony." "Nay, that can I not," said Mary Antony, "as any fool might see, when I go without the Reverend Mother's knowledge to report to the Lord Bishop by his private command.

Even the Reverend Mother herself obeys the commands of the Lord Bishop." Sister Mary Mark hesitated.

She certainly had seen the Lord Bishop pass under the rose-arch, and enter the garden, in close converse with Sister Mary Antony.

Yet her trust at the gate was given to her by the Reverend Mother.
"See here, Mary Mark," said Sister Antony.

"I must send a message forthwith to Mother Sub-Prioress.