I daresay you have heard that a good many nuns do that.

It is almost certain death and we all feel very badly about Angela.' 'Poor girl!' exclaimed Ugo.

'She must have cared for him so much that she is tired of living.

Very few of those Sisters ever come back, I believe.' 'None,' said the Princess Chiaromonte in a tone that would certainly have arrested his attention if he had known everything.

'It is the saddest thing in the world,' she went on quickly, fearing that her hatred had betrayed itself.