Like the ticking of his heart!

I rise

To depart, still glancing with piteous eyes

On Sister Anne; and I find her face

Turn'd questioning still to the same old place—

The face of the Saint. I stand and bow,

Curtsies again are bobbing now,

Dresses rustling... I know no more

Till the Saint has led me to the door,

And I find myself in a day-dream dim,