Pelleas looked into space with a most judicial air.

“You do not think of going to a secular house,” he said.

Igraine smiled to herself, and halted a moment in her answer.

“Why not?” she said.

“You—a nun?”

“Pelleas, I do not see why it is necessary for holiness to be bricked up like a frog in a wall in order to escape corruption. Why, you are eating your own words.”

“But you have vows,” he said.

“I have; and doubts also.”

“Doubts?” quoth the man, with a quick look, thrilling inwardly.

“Doubts, Pelleas, doubts.”