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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Oh dear, dear!" said Eularia. "Why, thou knowest nothing." Beatrice privately thought that she would prefer not to know all that rubbish. Plenty of it was served up to her before she left the convent, by the holy Sisters of Saint Clare. It was nearly three weeks before Bruno came for her, and very weary of her hosts she was. They were no less astonished and dismayed by her.
The ignorant heathen would not worship the holy images, would not use holy water, would not kneel before the holy Sacrament, would not do this, that, and the other: and, not content with this series of negations, she actually presumed to reason about them! "What dost thou believe?" despairingly demanded Sister Eularia at last. "I believe in God," said Beatrice gravely.
To the intense horror of Eularia, a silver laugh of unmistakable amusement greeted this holy relic. "Beatrice! hast thou no reverence?" "Not for angels' feathers," answered Beatrice, still laughing. "Well, I did think you had more sense!" "I can assure thee, thou wilt shock Father Bruno if thou allowest thyself to commit such improprieties." "I shall shock him, then. How excessively absurd!"
"Dost thou never pray?" gasped Eularia. "I never say so many of one thing, and so many of another," answered Beatrice, half laughing. "I never heard anything so absurd. The holy prophets did not pray in that way." "Of course they did!" exclaimed Eularia. "How could they obtain help of our Lady, without repeating Ave and Salve?" "How could they, indeed, before she was born?" was the retort.
They soon reached the Franciscan Convent. The Abbess, a rather stiffly-mannered, grey-haired woman, received her young guest with sedate kindliness, and committed her to the special charge of Sister Eularia. This was a young woman of about twenty-five, in whose mind curiosity was strongly developed.
Eularia took her unpromising pupil out of the sacristy more hastily than she had led her in. And perhaps it was as well for Beatrice that Father Bruno arrived the next day. They reached Bury Castle in safety.
"And I believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Sent of God." "And in the Holy Ghost?" asked Eularia. "If I understand you, certainly. Is it not written, `The Spirit of God hath made me'?" "And in holy Church?" "I do not know. What is it?" "How shocking! And in the forgiveness of sins?" "Assuredly." "And in the resurrection and eternal life?" "Undoubtedly."
If one whom I loved were slain by the sword, I should not courtesy to every sword I saw, because I loved him. I should hate the very sight of one." Eularia was scarcely less puzzled than Beatrice. "It is the symbol of our salvation," she said. "I should look on it rather as the symbol of His suffering." "True: but He suffered for us."
"Surely thou knowest how to cross thyself?" "Indeed I do not. And I do not see why I should." "Poor thing! how sadly thou lackest teaching! Dost thou not know that our Lord Christ suffered on the cross?" "Oh yes! But why must I cross myself on that account?" "In respect to Him!" exclaimed Eularia. "Pardon me.
"For which reason I should still less admire that which made Him suffer." Eularia shrugged her shoulders. "Thou art very ignorant." The discussion slumbered until they rose from supper; when Eularia seated Beatrice beside her on the settle, and offered to instruct her in the use of the rosary. "What a pretty necklace! I thought nuns did not wear ornaments?" "Ornaments! Of course not."
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