.

secretary to Cardinal Bellairs." The priest smiled as he laid his hand on the door.
"Quite right," he said.

"Now please sit here quietly, Monsignor, till I come back." (III) He sat in perfect silence, waiting, leaning back in his corner with closed eyes, compelling himself to keep his composure.
It was, at any rate, good luck that he had fallen in with such a friend as this--Father Jervis, was it not ?--who knew all about him, and, obviously, could be trusted to be discreet.

He must just attend to his instructions quietly then, and do what he was told.

No doubt things would come back soon.