Quotation

What is this place? - A convent. We're stealing from nuns? -They don't belong to the nuns. They belong to... the pope. Oh, I don't mind stealing from the pope. === He has found you, Sophia. As for Cornelis... With an older man like Cornelis, a likeness might be too much of a good thing. Too much of "winter and spring" about it. === We take them in off the streets, feed them, school them, and send them out to fend for themselves as kitchen maids, scullery maids... They find husbands, or worse, or remain here as novices.