"Nay, we will suppose an indefinite number of nuns, and the enclosure wall shall be placed wherever you direct."
"Even then it would be too grand, too magnificent for the votaries of St. Clare."
"You will not accept it, then?"
"No; unless I might build on another scale. Our holy foundress loved to seem poor as well as to be poor."
"And yet," said Eugene, "there are some magnificent convents in the world."
"Yes", said Euphrasie; "some orders have them exteriorly grand, but St. Clare loved everything to be plain and poor, even the church."
"And why?" asked Eugene, "surely a magnificent church is a great adjunct to religion. St. Peter's at Rome is the glory of the world."
Euphrasie looked as if about to reply, but she checked herself.
M. Bertolot, however, observed the movement, and said, "Nay, tell as your thoughts, Euphrasie."
"I am not sure they are correct," she replied.