"She was much more amorous than you."
"I daresay; I have never been in love."
"That is strange; how about your nature and the impulse of the senses?"
"We arrange all that easily at the convent. We accuse ourselves to the confessor, for we know it is a sin, but he treats it as a childish fault, and absolves us without imposing any penances."
"He knows human nature, and makes allowances for your sad position."
"He is an old man, very learned, and of ascetic habits, but he is all indulgence. It will be a sad day when we lose him."
"But in your amorous combats with another nun, don't you feel as if you would like her to change into a man?"
"You make me laugh. To be sure, if my sweetheart became a man I should not be sorry, but we do not desire such a miracle."
"That is, perhaps, through a coldness of temperament. In that your sister was better, for she liked me much more than C—— C——, and you do not like me as well as the sweetheart you left behind you at the convent."
"Certainly not, for with you I should violate my own chastity and expose myself to consequences I tremble to think of."