Without speaking, she led Catherine into Héloïse’s room and, with a reproachful glance, left, shutting the door behind her. The prioress answered her timid knock instantly. “I only hope it’s not about to happen to me.” Catherine put down the hoe and squared her shoulders to face her fate. “Try to find out what’s happened to Ursula.” “Go at once! The rest of you, get back to your work!” “More than impudence this time, girl,“ Sister Bertrada said grimly. “I’ve no doubt to punish you as you deserve.” “The Abbess Héloïse wants you,“ was all she would tell the girl. The novice mistress stepped carefully between the rows until she came to Catherine. “What could she have done?” Sister Emilie whispered as they continued hoeing the cabbages. They could hear her pleading and crying all the way across the cloister. Catherine was working in the vegetable garden with the other novices on the morning Sister Ursula’s family came to take her away.
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