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Since the nuns were busy from morning till night with a hundred duties Kitty saw little of them but at the services in the bare, humble chapel. On her first day the Mother Superior, catching sight of her seated at the back behind the girls on the benches according to their ages, stopped and spoke to her.
"You must not think it necessary for you to come to the chapel when we do," she said. "You are a Protestant and you have your own convictions."
"But I like to come, Mother. I find that it rests me."
The Mother Superior gave her a moment's glance and slightly inclined her grave head.
"Of course you will do exactly as you choose. I merely wanted you to understand that you are under no obligation."
But with Sister St. Joseph Kitty soon became on terms not of intimacy perhaps but of f
