matin-hour

Updated: May 8, 2025

Then silence settled back upon the Convent bombproof, but sleep did not come to everybody there. The Mother was kneeling, as she had knelt the whole night through, before the dismantled altar in the battered little chapel of the Convent, with the big white stars looking down upon her through the gaps in the shell-torn roof. When it was the matin-hour she rose and rang the bell.

Richard Dehan - The Dop Doctor