It led into a cell, and here she left me in the dark.

For ten minutes or more I stayed there, a prey to thoughts that I had rather forget.

At length the door opened again, and she came in, followed by a tall priest whose face I could not see, for he was dressed in the white robe and hood of the Dominicans that left nothing visible except his eyes.
'Greeting, my son,' he said, when he had scanned me for a while.

'The abbess mother has told me of your errand.

You are full young for such a task.' 'Were I old I should not love it better, father.