It seems very odd to me that all this kind of thing is perfectly well known to priests.

I thought I was the first person who had ever felt quite like this.
"I must add one thing.

Father H.asked me whether I didn't feel I had a vocation to the Religious Life; he told me that from everything he could see, I had, and that my coming to the monastery was simply providential.
"Well, I don't agree, and I have told him so.

I haven't the least idea what is going to happen next; but I know, absolutely for certain, that I have got to go on with the Major and Gertie to East London.

Gertie will have to be got away from the Major somehow, and until that is done I mustn't do anything else.
"I have written all this down as plainly as I can, because I promised Father H.I would.".