Evelyn,
dear, this question has been running in my mind some time back--is it
well for you to remain a postulant any longer? The white veil, again
I say, is such a help."
"A help for what, dear Mother?"
"Well, it will tell you if you have a vocation; at the end of the
year you will know much better than you know now."
"I a nun!" Evelyn repeated.
"In a year you will be better able to decide. Extraordinary things
have happened."
"But it would be extraordinary," Evelyn said, speaking to herself
rather than to the nun.
"I have spoken to Mother Hilda and Mother Philippa on the subject,
and they are agreed that if you are to remain in the convent it would
be better for you to take the white veil."
"Or do they think that it would be better for me to leave the
convent?"
"It would be impossible for us to think such a thing, my dear child."
"But what I would wish to understand, dear Mother, is this--have I to
decide either to leave the convent or to take the white veil?"
"Oh, no; but you have been so long a postulant."
"But when I went to Rome my postulancy--"
"Even so, you have been a postulant for over a year; and, should you
discover that you have no vocation, the fact of having been a novice,
of having worn the white veil, will be a protection to you ever
afterwards, should you return to the world.
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