Note 3 — ‘POPE JOAN.’
Reading edition
The one was as dismayed as the other at the time, though the event showed he had chosen right. Cecilia, who loved quiet and repose, tenderly entreated her father to let her off the anxieties and responsibilities of becoming the head of a great family, while Giacinta made a great noise3 at the idea of her beauty and talents being laid up hidden in a nun’s cell. Nevertheless, in those days long gone by, girls were used to obey.4 Cecilia married and proved herself an exemplary wife and mother, and carried respect for religion wherever she went.