The Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur Sibour, was paying a round of visits to some of the communities and ours was among the chosen ones. The news was told us by Mother Ste. Alexis, the senior, who was so tall, so thin, and so old that I never looked upon her as a human being, or as a living being. It always seemed to me as though she were stuffed and as though she moved by machinery. She frightened me and I never consented to go near to her until after her death. We were all assembled in the large room which we used on Thursdays. Mother Ste. Alexis, supported by two lay Sisters, stood on the little platform and, in a voice that sounded far, far off, announced to us the approaching visit of monseigneur. He was to come on Ste. Catherine’s Day, just a fortnight after the speech of the Reverend Mother. Our peaceful convent was thenceforth like a beehive in which a hornet had entered. Our lesson hours were curtailed, so that we might have time to make festoons of roses and lilies. The wide, tall armchair of carved wood was uncushioned, so that it might be varnished and polished. We made lamp shades covered with crystalline. The grass was pulled up in the courtyard ... and I cannot tell what was not done in honor of this visitor. Two days after the announcement made by Mother Ste. Alexis the programme of the _fête_ was read to us by Mother Ste. Sophie. The youngest of the nuns was to read a few words of welcome to monseigneur. This was the delightful Sister Séraphine. After that Marie Buguet was to play a pianoforte solo by Henri Herz. Marie de Lacour was to sing a song by Louise Puget, and then a little play in three scenes was to be given, entitled, “Toby Recovering His Eyesight.” It had been written by Mother Thérèse. I have now before me the little manuscript, all yellow with age and torn, and I can only just make out the sense of it and a few of the phrases. The little play was read to us by Mother Ste. Thérèse one Thursday, in the large assembly room. We were all in tears at the end, and Mother Ste. Thérèse was obliged to make a great effort in order to avoid committing, if only for a second, the sin of pride. Scene I. _Toby’s_ farewell to his blind father. He vows to bring back to him the ten talents lent to _Gabelus_, one of his relatives. Scene II. _Toby_, asleep on the banks of the Tiber, is being watched over by the _Angel Raphael_. Struggle with a monster fish which had attacked _Toby_ while he slept. When the fish is killed the angel advises _Toby_ to take its heart, its liver, and its gall, and to preserve these religiously. Scene III. _Toby’s_ return to his blind father. The angel tells him to rub the old man’s eyes with the entrails of the fish. The father’s eyesight is restored, and when _Toby_ begs the _Angel Raphael_ to accept some reward the latter makes himself known, and in a song to the glory of God, vanishes to heaven.