We will signal to each other through the tube when we are alone and disengaged, and we shall soon be great friends." Blanka started slightly at the bare thought of friendship with this woman.
"I am in love with you already," continued the Marchioness Caldariva.
"For the past week we have been meeting every day.

We kneel side by side in the same church, for I go to church regularly; but you have not noticed me, because you never raise your eyes from your prayer-book to look at your neighbours' bonnets and gowns.

As for me, now, I watch you all the time I am praying.

Daily prayers are a necessity with me.

In the morning I pray for the sins I have committed the day before, and in the evening for those to be committed on the morrow.