Reverend Mother: Oh?

　　M: When I was a child, I would come down the mountain and climb a tree and look over into your garden. I'd see the sisters at work and I would hear them sing on their way to Vespers, which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother. I was singing out there today without permission.

　　Reverend other: Maria, it is only here in the abbey that we have rules about postulant singing.

　　M: I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things. Everything and anything I think and feel.

　　Reverend Mother: Some people would call that honesty.

　　M: No, but it's terrible, Reverend Mother. You know how Sister Beth always makes me kiss the floor after we had a disagreement? Well lately I've taken to kissing the floor when I see her coming just to save time.

　　Reverend Mother: Maria, when you saw us over the abbey wall and longed to be one of us, that didn't necessarily mean that you were prepared for the way we live here, did it?

　　M: No, Mother. But I pray and I try and I am learning. I really am.

　　Reverend Mother: What is the most important lesson you have learned here, my child?

　　M: To find out what is the will of God and to do it whole-heartedly.

　　Reverend Mother: Maria, it seems to be the will of God that you leave us.

　　M: Leave you?

　　Reverend Mother: Only for a while, Maria.

　　M: Oh, please, Mother, don't do that. Please don't send me away! This is where I belong. It's my home. My family. It's my life.

　　Reverend Mother: Are you truly ready for it?

　　M: Yes, I am.

　　Reverend Mother: Perhaps if you go out into the world for a time, knowing what we expect of you. You will have a chance to find out that you could expect it from yourself.

　　M: I know what you expect, Mother, and I can do it. I promise I can!