The Secret Meeting (4)

Sister Mary was disappointed. From the first day she met Anna, she fell in love with the child and wanted to bring her up well and be a good nun. Mother Teresa once said to herself: "Just treat the children as normal, don't be too partial, these children, if you put too much thought and hope into them, you may be very disappointed one day ...", but Sister Mary I didn't believe it, I always thought Anna would not let me down, but I didn't think it would be the same as what the Mother Superior had said.

"Oh ..." a long sigh came from Sister Mary's throat, "if you don't want to be a nun for the rest of your life, then you will have to leave the convent and live a secular life, but it is not very honourable to have been a nun and return to secularism ... It is ..."

Anna, who didn't know where she got the courage, said, "Since there is another option, I'll choose the secular life, it's more free for me ..."

"In your case it would be better to marry ..." Sister Mary paused, stroked Anna's hair like a mother and said, "You have been offered to Mother Teresa as a wife, so Mother Teresa asked me to ask you If you want to be a nun then this is a good reason to refuse, if you don't want to be a nun then he should be the best person to help you return to the world ..."

Anna held her breath, quietly reflecting on the nun's words, and then cautiously asked, "Who is this man you speak of? Have I seen him before? ..."

Sister Mary smiled and said, "Of course you have, the first time you saw each other was in the rose garden, and I saw then that he had a special interest in you. ..."

Anna's mind flashed back to a figure, that of Alexandre, and of course she remembered the young man who had so presumptuously taken her finger in his mouth, and it was that encounter in the rose garden that had made her heart flutter. ..."

Sister Mary said as a visitor, "Anna, I can't hide from the eyes of a man and a woman the little thoughts they have, and I've had a worldly life before. ... Besides, the way he looked at you, the way he acted, everything showed that he loved you from the first moment... ..."

Anna was uncomfortable by what Sister Mary said, she knew everything, it was as if she had seen through her little secret, Anna became uncomfortable: "Do you think he really loves me ..."

Sister Mary looked at Anna's excited face and said with a smile, "Of course, otherwise why would he have told the Mother Superior that he wanted to marry you ... Well, it's late, you should go to bed early, I know what you want and I will tell Mother Superior Delane the truth."

Anna was about to say something else, but Sister Mary had already gone out of the room, so she did not ask any more questions.

Anna lay in bed, thinking that soon she would leave the convent and that soon she would live happily with Alexandre, Anna's heart was as sweet as honey.