“He comes and goes very suddenly. Often he is here and I do not even know it.”
“He is a strange man, but I think he is a good man.”
As she spoke about him she began to realise that something in him had roused the desire in her to come to the priest.
“And he sees far,” she added.
She looked steadily at the priest, who was waiting quietly to hear more. She was glad he did not trouble her mind just then by trying to help her to go on, to be explicit.
“I came here to find peace,” she continued. “And I thought I had found it. I thought so till to-day.”
“We only find peace in one place, and only there by our own will according with God’s.”
“You mean within ourselves.”
“Is it not so?”
“Yes. Then I was foolish to travel in search of it.”