Cecilia didn't answer.
"You can tell me your dream…I shall be able to judge for myself."
"No, no; it is too frightful!" And Cecilia fell upon her knees.
"One isn't responsible for one's dreams."
"Is that so, Mother? But if one prays?"
"But you don't pray for dreams?"
"Not for the dream I had last night."
"Well, for what did you pray? Praying for dreams, Cecilia, is entirely contrary to the rule, or to the spirit of the rule."
"But Veronica, Angela, Rufina—they all pray that their counterparts may visit them."
"Counterparts!" the old woman answered. "What are you talking about?"