Do you remember, Hugh, long years ago, that I spoke to you of Father Gervaise ?" "I do remember," said the Knight.
She leaned her elbows on the table, framed her face in her hands, and looked straight into his eyes.
"Father Gervaise was more to me than I then told you, Hugh." "What was he to thee, Mora ?" "He was the Ideal of my girlhood.

For a time, I thought of him by day, I dreamed of him by night.

No word of his have I ever forgotten.

Many of his sayings and precepts have influenced, and still deeply influence, my whole life.

In fact, Hugh, I loved Father Gervaise; not as a woman loves a man--ah, no! But, rather, as a nun loves her Lord." "I see," said the Knight.