"Why must you go?"
"Teresa, try to think—" She was about to say "of God, and not of me," but her senses seemed to swoon a little at that moment, and she fell into Evelyn's arms.
"Teresa! Teresa! What is this?"
It was the Prioress coming from her room.
"A sudden giddiness, Mother," the nun answered.
"Just as I was telling her of my Latin lesson in the novitiate, that
I could learn Latin with her better than with Mother Hilda."
"We met in the passage," Sister Mary John said, moving away.
"And a sudden giddiness came over her," Evelyn explained.
"Teresa, Sister Cecilia, who is our sacristan, is a little slow; she wants help, you are just the one to help her, and come with me."