Come and see them; they are close by." But the ladies were quite overcome, so affected by their prolonged sojourn in the gloom and by the tales of death which the Trappist had poured into their ears that they insisted on going up again.

Moreover, the candles were coming to an end.

They were all dazzled when they found themselves once more in the sunlight, outside the little hut where articles of piety and souvenirs were sold.

The girl bought a paper weight, a piece of marble on which was engraved the fish symbolical of "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour of Mankind." On the afternoon of that same day Pierre decided to visit St.Peter's.

He had as yet only driven across the superb piazza with its obelisk and twin fountains, encircled by Bernini's colonnades, those four rows of columns and pilasters which form a girdle of monumental majesty.