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`` Another scheme of course . I was too merciful with her , I imagine . All this noise seems to have one aim : to direct attention to these convents . Now if she were hidden in any of them , and a committee should visit that convent and find her forcibly detained , as she would call it ; or if she could sound a fire alarm and make a spectacular escape at two in the morning , before the whole world , what could be said about it ? '' `` Is n't it rather late in history for such things ? '' said Monsignor . `` A good trick is as good to-day as a thousand years ago .