Sister Hyacinthe, however, immediately raised her head and wiped her lips with a linen cloth, which became spotted with blood.

At the same time Madame de Jonquiere gave her attention to a patient in front of her, who had just fainted.

She was called Madame Vetu, and was the wife of a petty clockmaker of the Mouffetard district, who had not been able to shut up his shop in order to accompany her to Lourdes.

And to make sure that she would be cared for she had sought and obtained _hospitalisation_.

The fear of death was bringing her back to religion, although she had not set foot in church since her first communion.