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"We are all praying," said the Prioress, "that it may be so."
"Well, Hilda, you'll agree with me now, I think, that we have every
reason to hope."
"Hope for what, dear Mother?"
"That we shall discover a vocation in Evelyn. You heard what Sister
Lawrence said, and she has had great experience."
"It is possible to God, of course, that an opera singer may find a
vocation for the religious life, and live happily in a community of
nuns devoted to Perpetual Adoration."
"But you don't believe God desires that such a thing should come to
pass?"
"I shouldn't like to say that, it would be too presumptuous; but it
would be entirely out of the ordinary course."
The Prioress began to wonder if Mother Hilda suspected that some
great sin committed while she was in Rome was the cause of Evelyn's
nervous breakdown; and the Mistress of the Novices, as she walked by
the side of the Prioress, began to wonder why the Prioress wished
that Evelyn should become a nun. It might be that the Prioress, who
was a widow, was interested in the miracle of the great shock which
had caused Evelyn to relinquish her career and to turn to the Church!
That might be her motive, she reflected.
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