“Patience may indeed be a virtue, but it does not make it easier to come by”
“Patience may indeed be a virtue, but it does not make it easier to come by”“What a lovely offering,” Suor Michela, the abbess of Santa Giuliano, said to Fiammetta. “But I fear we have no new novitiates. We have not for some time.”
“I am sure there will be some pious girls come to fill your rooms soon enough,” Natasia said, though the cold dankness of the ancient convent may have much to do with its lack of popularity. “And when you do, you shall tell us, and we shall help you make them welcome.”
“How truly kind of you,” the elderly woman’s many chins warbled as she took Natasia’s hand. She walked her guests out into the narrow-vaulted corridor and out onto the Via Faenza.
They stood under the small canopy abo
