More than that I cannot say.' 'I look forward,' Angela answered confidently.

'I pray and I hope.' 'If you are sure of that, you are safe,' said Monsignor Saracinesca.
'No one but yourself can know.' 'I began to work here hoping and praying that if I could do any good at all it might help him, wherever he is,' Angela went on.

'That is the only vocation I ever felt, and now I wish to take the veil because I think that as a professed nun I may be able to use better what little I have learned in two years and a half than if I stay on as a lay sister.

It is not for myself, except in so far as I know that the only way to help him is to do my best here.

As I hope that God may be merciful to him, so I hope that God will accept my work, my prayers, and my faith.' The prelate looked at the delicate face and earnest eyes, and the quietly spoken words satisfied him and a little more.