Another pause ensued. Then Morgana spoke, in a very quiet and
submissive tone.

"Dear Don Aloysius, you are a 'religious' as they say--and naturally
you mistrust all seekers of science--science which is upsetting to
your doctrine."

Aloysius raised a deprecating hand.

"My child, there is no science that can upset the Source of all
science! The greatest mathematician that lives did not institute
mathematics--he only copies the existing Divine law."

"That is perfectly true"--said the Marchese Rivardi--"But la Signora
Royal means that the dogma of the Church is in opposition to
scientific discovery--"

"I have not found it so"--said Don Aloysius, tranquilly--"We have
believed in what you call your 'wireless telephony'--for centuries;-
-when the Sanctus bell rings at Mass, we think and hope a message
from Our Lord comes to every worshipper whose soul is 'in tune' with
the heavenly current; that is one of your 'scientific discoveries'--
and there are hundreds of others which the Church has incorporated
through a mystic fore-knowledge and prophetic instinct. No--I find
nothing upsetting in science,--the only students who are truly upset
both physically and morally, are they who seek to discover God while
denying His existence."

There followed a silence. The group in the loggia seemed for the
moment mesmerised by the priest's suave calm voice, steady eyes and