... But you fear I shall live too long?
No, Teresa, the time will not be very long."
"Mother, don't talk like that, it only grieves me. As long as you
wish me to stay I'll stay."
"But if I weren't here you would leave?" Evelyn did not answer. "You
would be very lonely?"
"Yes, I should be lonely." And then, speaking at the end of a long
silence, she said, "Why did you send away Sister Mary John? She was
my friend, and one must have a friend--even in a convent."
"Teresa, I begged of her to remain. And you are lonely now without
her?"
"I should be lonelier, Mother, if you weren't here."
"We will share our loneliness together."
Evelyn seemed to acquiesce.
"My dear child, you are very good; you have a kind heart. One sees it
in your eyes."
She left the Prioress's room frightened, saying. "Till the Prioress's
death."
XXXI
Father Daly paced the garden alley, reading his Breviary, and,
catching sight of him, Sister Winifred, a tall, thin woman, with a
narrow forehead and prominent teeth, said to herself, "Now's my
chance."
"I hope you won't mind my interrupting you, Father, but I have come
to speak to you on a matter of some importance. It will take some
minutes for me to explain it all to you, and in confession, you see,
our time is limited.
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