"The nuns told me, Monsignor, their prayers would save me, and they were right."
"But you aren't sure whether you were dreaming or waking."
"But my experience was shared by Sir Owen Asher, who told me next morning that he had thought of coming to my room and was restrained."
"Did he say that he, too, heard voices?"
She had to admit that Owen had not said that he had heard voices, only that a restraint had been put upon him.
"The restraint need not have been a miraculous one."
"You think he didn't want to come to see me? I beg your pardon,
Monsignor."
"There is nothing to beg my pardon for. I am your confessor, your spiritual adviser, and you must tell everything to me; and it is my duty to tell you that you place too much reliance upon miracles. This is not the first time you have spoken to me about miraculous interposition."
"But if God is in heaven and His Church upon earth, why shouldn't there be miracles? Moreover, nearly all the saints are credited with having performed miracles. Their lives are little more than records of miracles they have performed."
"I cannot agree with you in that. Their lives are records of their love of God, and the prayers they have offered up that God's wrath may be averted from a sinful world, and the prayers they have offered up for their souls."