"In fact we are all good Christians here.

And I am a regular worshipper and take the sacrament every Easter.

But, really, I must say that members of a religious community ought not to keep hotels.

No, no, it isn't right!" And thereupon he vented all the spite of a tradesman in presence of what he considered to be disloyal competition.

Ought not those Blue Sisters, those Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, to have confined themselves to their real functions, the manufacture of wafers for sacramental purposes, and the repairing and washing of church linen?
Instead of that, however, they had transformed their convent into a vast hostelry, where ladies who came to Lourdes unaccompanied found separate rooms, and were able to take their meals either in privacy or in a general dining-room.
Everything was certainly very clean, very well organised and very inexpensive, thanks to the thousand advantages which the Sisters enjoyed; in fact, no hotel at Lourdes did so much business.