She could not remember that she had ever seen him there before, but it was an office, after all, and there was no reason why he should not come to it if he had business with her.

She rose to receive him.

He shut the door, which was the only one, bowed gravely, and took one of the two spare rush-bottomed chairs and seated himself, before he spoke.
'The Mother Superior sent for me,' he said, 'and I have been with her an hour.

She has asked me to come to you.

Are you at leisure ?' 'Unless I am called.