Already she foresaw pavements of gorgeous mosaic, windows radiant with Munich glass, and store of vestments to make her sacristy famous.

Grandiose plans suggested themselves of founding daughter houses in Melbourne, in Auckland, in Capetown, in Natal.

All things were possible to a well-filled purse.

She saw how her Order might open schools in English towns, where girls could be taught French, Italian, Latin, music, all the accomplishments dear to middle-class parents, at ridiculously low fees, or without fees at all.

She stirred involuntarily at the splendour of her visions.