CONTENTS
CHAPTER
| XXXVI | STRONG TO ACT; ABLE TO ENDURE | 247 | ||
| XXXVII | WHAT MOTHER SUB-PRIORESS KNEW | 253 | ||
| XXXVIII | THE BISHOP KEEPS VIGIL | 259 | ||
| XXXIX | THE "SPLENDID KNIGHT" | 268 | ||
| XL | THE HEART OF A NUN | 275 | ||
| XLI | WHAT THE BISHOP REMEMBERED | 289 | ||
| XLII | THE WARNING | 298 | ||
| XLIII | MORA MOUNTS TO THE BATTLEMENTS | 305 | ||
| XLIV | "I LOVE THEE" | 313 | ||
| XLV | THE SONG OF THE THRUSH | 319 | ||
| XLVI | "HOW SHALL I LET THEE GO?" | 322 | ||
| XLVII | THE BISHOP is TAKEN UNAWARES | 327 | ||
| XLVIII | A STRANGE CHANCE | 331 | ||
| XLIX | TWICE DECEIVED | 338 | ||
| L | THE SILVER SHIELD | 341 | ||
| LI | TWO NOBLE HEARTS GO DIFFERENT WAYS | 367 | ||
| LII | THE ANGEL-CHILD | 372 | ||
| LIII | ON THE HOLY MOUNT | 378 | ||
| LIV | THE UNSEEN PRESENCE | 384 | ||
| LV | THE HEART OF A WOMAN | 386 | ||
| LVI | THE TRUE VISION | 395 | ||
| LVII | "I CHOOSE TO RIDE ALONE" | 402 | ||
| LVIII | THE WARRIOR HEART | 405 | ||
| LIX | THE MADONNA IN THE HOME | 410 | ||
| LX | THE CONVENT BELL | 417 |
The
White Ladies
of
Worcester
CHAPTER I
THE SUBTERRANEAN WAY
The slanting rays of afternoon sunshine, pouring through stone arches, lay in broad, golden bands, upon the flags of the Convent cloister.
The old lay-sister, Mary Antony, stepped from the cool shade of the cell passage and, blinking at the sunshine, shuffled slowly to her appointed post at the top of the crypt steps, up which would shortly pass the silent procession of nuns returning from Vespers.
Daily they went, and daily they returned, by the underground way, a
passage over a mile in length, leading from the Nunnery of the White
Ladies at Whytstone in Claines, to the Church of St. Mary and St.
Peter, the noble Cathedral within the walls of the city of Worcester.
Entering this passage from the crypt in their own cloisters, they walked in darkness below the sunny meadows, passed beneath the Fore-gate, moving in silent procession under the busy streets, until they reached the crypt of the Cathedral.
From the crypt,