He gave her holy water at the door of the chapel, and her eyes
acknowledged it with a glance that sent something very pleasant into
his heart.
Then, with an impulse of discretion, to efface himself, he knelt at the
first prie-dieu he came to. But Susanna, instead of going forward,
knelt at the prie-dieu next to his.
The chapel at Craford is a dim, brown little room,--the same room that
in the days of persecution had been a "secret" chapel, where priests
and people worshipped at the peril of their lives. You enter it from
the hall by a door that was once a sliding panel. In the old days
there was no window, but now there is a window, a small one,
lancet-shaped, set with stained glass, opening into the court. Save
for the coloured light that came through this, and the two candles
burning on the altar, the chapel was quite dark. The Mass was said by
an old Capuchin, Father David, from the convent at Wetherleigh; it was
served by Adrian.