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.”
“Then what do you do with that?”
“We pray by it.”
“Pray—by—it! I do not understand.”
“We keep count of our prayers.”
“Count!—why?”
“Why, how could we remember them else?”
“But why should you remember?”