"I can promise you at once that as a retreatant, you will not be bound to lead the life of a Trappist in its austerest sense.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
You would certainly be the sole retreatant there, and no one will have the least idea of troubling himself about you; you will be free, you can if you choose leave the monastery just as you entered it, without having confessed or approached the Sacraments, your will will be respected there, and no monk will attempt to sound it without your authority.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
He read:- "We will receive with pleasure, for a week, in our guest-house the retreatant whom you wish to commend to us, and I do not see at the moment any reason why the retreat should not begin next Tuesday.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans