“Why impossible?”
“You have no idea of the implicit obedience required of us.”
“But, noble lady, your vows and your discipline only bind you in your relations to the convent life, not to the outer world.”
“You are mistaken, my daughter. We owe unquestioning obedience in all things to our superiors. Whatever they demand of us is right. It is not for us to question or decide.”
“How is that, noble lady? Having dedicated yourself to Heaven, can you blindly follow human dictation?”
“Child, the will of the Church, to which we bow, is the will of Heaven.”
“I do not understand that.”
“That is because you are not in the right spirit to understand it.”
“That may be true, but I am sure of one thing.”
“What is that?”