He led her to the right, to the corner of the quadrangle farthest removed from the Cathedral where by daylight few pass, and at night none.
"What do you mean ?" she asked, "Only ten minutes." "It has all been arranged," he answered.

"I met you here on purpose.

You have only ten minutes in which to settle." "To settle what ?" she asked with a laugh.
"Your whole life." "But one cannot settle one's life in an Ave Maria," she said, which means in the twinkling of an eye.

And she looked at him by the dim light and laughed again.

For she was young and they had always made holiday together, and laughed.
"Did you mean that letter which you wrote to my father about going into religion ?" "Oh, I don't know.