She did not love the work she had promised to do more than she loved him; that was not true, and never had been.

All had been for him--her vow, her work, and her prayers.

Heaven forbid, indeed, that she should now set him before them; yet it was hard not to do so and there was only one possible way; in a changed sense they must be given for him still, and for his salvation, else she could not give at all.
Monsignor Saracinesca had watched her progress from her noviciate to her present position of responsibility, and had often spoken of her with the Mother Superior.

He would not have advised every nun to do what he thought best in her case.

There was not another in the community, except the Mother herself, whom he would have trusted so fully.