Then I filled up the hole with dust scraped from the floor, and replaced the stone, wedging it tight with bits of mortar.

It is the third stone counting from the eastern angle in the second course above the floor line.

There I set them, and there doubtless they lie to this day, for unless the tower is pulled down to its foundations none will ever find them in that masonry." At this moment there came a knocking on the door.

When it was opened by Emlyn a nun entered, saying that the King's Visitor demanded to speak with the Prioress.
"Show him here since I cannot come to him," said Mother Matilda, "and you, Cicely and Emlyn, bide with me, for in such company it is well to have witnesses." A minute later Dr.Legh appeared accompanied by his secretaries, gorgeously attired and puffing from the stairs.
"To business, to business," he said, scarcely stopping to acknowledge the greetings of the Prioress.

"Your convent is sequestrated upon your own petition, Madam, therefore I need not stop to make the usual inquiries, and indeed I will admit that from all I hear it has a good repute, for none allege scandal against you, perhaps because you are all too old for such follies.