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Chapter Five

They stepped onto the causeway. Dora felt a tremble of excitement. ‘Will we be able to go to the top of the tower?’ she asked.

‘Well, you know, we’re not going inside,’ said Mrs. Mark, slightly scandalized. ‘This is an enclosed order of nuns. No one goes in or comes out.’

Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. ‘Do you mean’, she said, ‘that they’re completely imprisoned in there?’

Mrs Mark laughed. ‘Not completely, my dear,’ she said. ‘They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.’ They walked on.

‘Don’t they every come out?’ asked Dora.

‘No,’ said Mrs Mark. ‘Being Benedictines, they take a vow of stability, that is they remain all their lives in the house where they take their first vows. They die and are buried inside in the nuns’ cemetery.’

‘How absolutely appalling!’ said Dora.

‘Quiet now, please!’ said Mrs Mark in a lowered voice. They were reaching the end of the causeway.

~ Iris Murdoch, The Bell

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