Hæc.—"He laughed at her."
Illa.—"Just like him, the lewd, hypocritical pharisee."
Hæc.—"Eh? she was too hard on the good priest. He was a pure and upright servant of God."
Illa.—"Ay, as Judas was. Had not sister Dorothea heard——"
Hæc.—"No; for God's sake, what? The dear sister frightened her already."
Illa.—"First, you confess that the priest laughed when you talked about chastity?"
Hæc.—"Yes, true, ah, indeed true."
Illa.—"Then you remember that he preached a sermon lately upon adul—upon adul—. No, she never could utter the word—the horrible word. Upon the seventh commandment, to the great scandal of the entire convent?"
Hæc.—"Ah yes, ah yes, she was there, and had to stop one ear with her finger, the other with her kerchief, not to hear all the strange and dreadful things he was saying."
Illa.—"And yet this was the man that ran in and out of the cloister daily at his pleasure, sent for or not—a young unmarried man—though the convent rules especially declared an old man. Ah, if she were sub-prioress, this scandal should never be permitted."