“But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission⁠—”

“Saint Benoît II , in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine Pogonatus.”

“But the commissary of police⁠—”

“Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar.”

“But the inspector from the Prefecture⁠—”

“The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: Stat crux dum volvitur orbis .”