The Counterplot

by Hope Mirrlees

Don Manuel de Lara: Aye, the dead ... that defend virginity.

Sister Pilar (very coldly): All this has ever been my custom, as a nun, without your admonition.

Don Manuel de Lara: Good-night.

(Pause.)

Sister Pilar (almost inaudibly): Good-night.

ACT III

SCENE I

A week later. The Chapel of the Convent of San Miguel. Sister Assumcion kneels in the Confessional, where Jaime Rodriguez is receiving penitents.

Sister Assumcion: I ask your blessing, father. I confess to Almighty God, and to you, father....