“Padre! Where?”
“That is the point about which I have to go to Rome. It is not yet decided whether I am to take a see in the Apennines, or to remain here as Suffragan.”
“And is the new Director chosen yet?”
“Father Cardi has been nominated and arrives here to-morrow.”
“Is not that rather sudden?”
“Yes; but——The decisions of the Vatican are sometimes not communicated till the last moment.”
“Do you know the new Director?”
“Not personally; but he is very highly spoken of. Monsignor Belloni, who writes, says that he is a man of great erudition.”
“The seminary will miss you terribly.”
“I don't know about the seminary, but I am sure you will miss me, carino; perhaps almost as much as I shall miss you.”