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at night! Who are these counterparts?" Evelyn asked herself. "The
idle fancies of young girls, of course." But she was curious to hear
what these were, and on the first favourable opportunity she
introduced the subject, saying:
"What did you mean, Veronica, when you said that it was strange I had
been in the convent so long without finding my counterpart?"
"I didn't say that, Teresa. I said without a counterpart finding you
out, or that is what I meant to say. It is the counterpart which
seeks us, not we the counterpart. It would be wrong for us to seek
one. You know what I said about your singing, how it disturbed me and
prevented me from praying? Well, sometimes a memory of your singing
precedes the arrival of my counterpart."
"But did you not say that Sister Mary John was my counterpart?"
Veronica answered that Sister Mary John may have thought so.
"But she is a choir sister." And to this Veronica did not know what
answer to make. The silence was not broken for a long while, each
continuing her work, wondering when the other would speak. "Have all
the nuns counterparts?"
"I don't know anything about the choir sisters, but Rufina and Jerome
have.
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