Your always sincere friend, and affectionate Sp. Mother,
Mary Hilda, M. Sup.
I have ample testimony to the truth of her statement, “Seventeen Years with Father Ignatius,” since I am able to give the following extract from a letter written by “Ignatius” himself to Sister Mary Agnes, soon after she had left the convent:—
Jesus
Only.
Pax.
Llanthony Abbey,
Dec. 30th, 1884.
My dearest Child,—
… You have profited nothing from all my teaching and patience of nearly seventeen years: you cannot imagine the grief you have given me.