I will leave you for a few minutes.' There was nothing for it but to listen.

Marie could not refuse to be lectured by the priest.
But she told herself that having had the courage to resist her uncle, it certainly was out of the question that any one else should have the power to move her.
'My dear Marie,' began the Cure, 'your aunt has been telling me of this little difference between you and your affianced husband.
Won't you sit down, Marie, because we shall be able so to talk more comfortably ?' 'I don't want to talk about it at all,' said Marie.

But she sat down as she was bidden.
'But, my dear, it is needful that your friends should talk to you.
I am sure that you have too much sense to think that a young woman like yourself should refuse to hear her friends.' Marie had it almost on her tongue to tell the priest that the only friends to whom she chose to listen were her uncle and her aunt, but she thought that it might perhaps be better that she should remain silent.

'Of course, my dear, a young person like you must know that she must walk by advice, and I am sure you must feel that no one can give it you more fittingly than your own priest.' Then he took a large pinch of snuff.
'If it were anything to do with the Church,--yes,' she said.
'And this has to do with the Church, very much.

Indeed I do not know how any of our duties in this life cannot have to do with the Church.