Sister Assumcion gives a little snort. Silence. Sister Pilar comes out of the convent behind the group of nuns, and approaches them unobserved.
Fourth Nun (musing): And yet, that book, by a monk long dead, about the miracles of Our Lady ... it shows her wondrous lenient to sin, let but the sinners be loud enough in her praise ... there was the thief she saved from the gallows because he had said so many Aves.
Sister Pilar: But he was not in religion.
(They all give starts of surprise.)
Second Nun: Jesus! How you startled me!
Third Nun: I verily believe you carry a heliotrope and walk invisible.
Sister Assumcion (a note of nervousness perceptible through the insolence of her voice): And are those in religion to have, forsooth, a smaller share in the spiritual treasure of the Church than thieves?
Sister Pilar sits down without answering.
Second Nun (smiling): Well?