Volume II Part 44 (1/2)

”The abbess,” she said, ”told lad she was to see you, and that she was certain to find out who you are”

I then related to her the adventure of the spy, and we both thought that it was ratify her curiosity about me

”I have resolved not to attend your church any reat deprivation to me, but in our common interest I can but approve your resolution”

She related the affair of the treacherous crack in the partition, and added,

”It is already repaired, and there is no longer any fear in that quarter I heard of it fro boarder whom I love dearly, and who is much attached to me I am not curious to know her na angel, tell me whether my happiness will be postponed”

”Yes, but only for twenty-four hours; the new professed sister has invited me to supper in her room, and you must understand I cannot invent any plausible excuse for refusing her invitation”

”You would not, then, tell her in confidence the very legitimate obstacle which makes me wish that the new sisters never take supper?”

”Certainly not: we never trust anyone so far in a convent Besides, dearest, such an invitation cannot be declined unless I wish to gain a most bitter enemy”

”Could you not say that you are ill?”

”Yes; but then the visits!”

”I understand; if you should refuse, the escape ht be suspected”

”The escape! i out of the convent”

”Then you are the only one able to perform that miracle?”

”You old which performs that miracle”

”And one by for them! But tell me, my love, where will you wait forof the sun?”

”Could I not wait for you at your casino?”

”No, because my lover will take me himself to Venice”

”Your lover?”

”Yes, himself”

”It is not possible”

”Yet it is true”

”I can wait for you in St John and St Paul's Square behind the pedestal of the statue of Bartholoamo”