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Miss Braithwaite had to waken Cis in the morning to get her up in time / to drive with her to St. Francis Xavier's for Mass.
It was a Mass of renunciation and espousal, a communion that pledged / Cicely to turn from her forbidden love for Rodney to allegiance to / God, yet she felt this but dimly. She went through the Mass dutifully, / but humbly; she realized that she was vowing herself and that her vow / was then accepted. Her will acquiesced, but at least one of the other / powers of her soul was atrophied. Below her surfaces pain waited her / awakening; she willed her martyrdom unfalteringly, but there was for / her none of the martyrs' triumphant joy. Yet she received the Lord Who / had once raised a maiden from the dead, and, groping for Him, found / Him, how truly she did not then know.