文档介绍：1 In the Aabbey
(The story starts in an abbey of Salzburg, Austria, in the last Golden Days of the Thirties. Halleluyah!
Bernice: Reverend Mother...
Reverend Mother: Sister Bernice.
Bernice: I simply cannot find her.
Reverend Mother: Marisa?
Bernice: She’s missing from the abbey again.
Sister A: Perhaps we should have put a cowbell around her neck.
Sister B: Have you tried the barn? You know how much she adores the animals.
Bernice: I have looked everywhere, in all of the usual places.
Revernd Mother: Sister Bernice, considering that is Maria, I suggest you look in some place unusual.
(Later, Maria gets back es to see Reverend Mother.)
Reverend Mother: I’m here, my child. Now sit down.
Maria (short for M): Oh, Reverend Mother, I’m so sorry. I just couldn’t help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and before...
Reverend Mother: I know! I have not summoned you here for apologies.
M: Oh, please Mother, do let me ask for forgiveness.
Reverend Mother: If it will make you feel better.
M: Yes. Well you see, the sky was so blue today and everything was so green and fragrant. I just had to be a part of it! And you know those birds kept meeting me higher and higher as though it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it.
Reverend Mother: Child, suppose darkness e and you were lost?
M: Oh, Mother, I could never be lost up there. That’s my mountain, I was brought up on it. It was the mountain that led me to you.
Reverend Mother: Oh?
M: When I was a child, I e down the mountain and climb a tree and look over into your garden. I’d see the sisters at work and I would hear them sing on their way to Vespers, which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother. I was singing out there today without permission.
Reverend other: Maria, it is only here in the abbey that we have rules about postulant singing.
M: I can’t seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what’s worse, I can’t seem to stop saying things. Everything and anyth