Miss Winter's advent rather amazed her, I think, but she waved us into our respective chairs like a reverend abbess receiving two rather leprous mendicants.
Adriana stopped this melancholy procession, and cried out to the duke for justice, telling him that the abbess had refused to deliver up her lunatic husband to her care.
And the duke went with the abbess and her newly found husband and children into the convent, to hear this happy family discourse at leisure of the blessed ending of their adverse fortunes.
However, the abbess presiding over her education, in an effort to save her from wedlock, supposedly disguised Matilda as a nun so that when Rufus entered he found her hidden under the veils, compelling him to leave the church.