Your saints, who seem to have turned your head, they led single lives.

Rather than do otherwise they converted their lovers, ran away from their homes, and were put to death." The young girl listened and was confused.

But soon she laughed merrily.
Her perfect health, and all her love of life, rang out in this sonorous gaiety.

"The histories of the saints! But that was ages ago! Times have entirely changed since then.

God having so completely triumphed, no longer demands that anyone should die for Him." When reading the Legend, it was the marvels which fascinated her, not the contempt of the world and the desire for death.