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Since the nuns were busy from morning till night with a hundred duties Kitty saw little of them but at the services in the bare, humble chapel. On her first day the Mother Superior, catching sight of her seated at the back behind the girls on the benches according to their ages, stopped and spoke to her.
‘You must not think it necessary for you to come to the chapel when we do,' she said. ‘You are a Protestant and you have your own convictions.'