I went there with Madame Bernard before I began my noviciate, and I went again, for the last time, before I took the veil.

I had loved you living and I loved you dead.' Giovanni moved as if he were going to speak, but she would not let him.
'No, hear me!' she cried anxiously.

'I offered God my life and my strength for your sake, and if I have done any good here in five years, as novice and nun, it has been in the hope that it might be accepted for you, if your soul needed it.

Though you may not believe in such things, do you at least understand me ?' 'Indeed I do, and I am grateful--most grateful.' She was a little disappointed by his tone, for he spoke with an evident effort.
'It was gladly given,' she said.

'But now you have come back to life----' She hesitated.