midnight
interrupted the child . `` A little altar , with a stone step on which you kneel . And a crucifix at the top , a book of prayer and invocation . Many of the sisters pray an hour at midnight . All pray an hour in the morning , then breakfast and the chapel for another hour , with prayers and singing . After that the classes . The little girls are taught the catechism and manners , if they are to go out in the world , sewing and embroidery .