[1] To this it had been raised from the original 250l. partly by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and partly by Mr. Fulmort's brother and Miss Charlecote. (author)
[CONCLUSION.]
'Now for the double wedding!' said Mother Constance, as one September evening the Reverend Charles Audley entered the Superior's room in the temporary daughter-house at East Ewmouth.
'What should an old blind Australian know of gay weddings?'
'Don't you know that to hear of mundane festivities is the delight of convents?'
'The festivities were to no great extent.'
'Of course not, but you must begin at the beginning, for I lost all knowledge of everybody and thing that had not got small-pox.'
For the malady had been raging in a town at the other end of England, and the special hospital where she and her staff had done service had only just closed, and quarantine was over, so that she could return.
'Which is the beginning?'