to obey the Holy Rule of this congregation...

You will be a good nun, Sister Luke.

Little by little, I'm going to repair it.

And for the favor to be received... into this congregation.

You'll be a fine nun, Lisa.

Not a failure.

Sister, the mission just called.

Frank majored in sociology at university.

This whole yard needs repair, Colonel. I'll see to your engine as soon as I can.

This place will be fixed up just like it was before.

It's being decorated

During that entire year, none of you will leave the Mother House.

I would rather it be kept in the congregation to which it belongs.

I will have repaired your watch by tomorrow.

We do this to attract a sister's attention.

She'll redecorate your home From the cellar to the dome

And there'll be sisters there to teach her the word of God.

Don't cry.

Mother Marcella offered me the chance to show true humility...

Once you set foot in the Mother House, the walls, the discipline, the silence

But Baldy's an expert. He'll have that radio working in nothing flat.

Tomorrow, in the chapter hall... the Superior General will admit you formally into the congregation.

We select only the very strongest sisters for our missions.

Tonight, when you go to your cells... you will find parts of your new habit.

Mother, I will try to correct myself with the grace of God.

I'd like to borrow Sister Luke to organize our boys in the textile mills.

You're afraid you won't be able to stand the convent if they send you back.

I got a good mind to teach you a couple of tricks they'd never learn you in a convent.

When I leave here, it will be good to know it is in the Mother House.

They say if the holy rule of a convent were destroyed... it could be recaptured by studying the behavior of such a perfect nun.

The drums have already started passing the word... so by tomorrow we'll be swamped with food and drink for Sister Luke.

That is literally all my voice being manipulated, and when you get to that point, you have to ask, don't you, what's the point?

But I don't think he understands... that the colonies are only for sisters perfected in the religious life.

There's carnival and vaudeville, Ringling Brothers, nightclubs.

No he can.

If it wasn't for the dough I've been piling up that way in the last 10 or 12 years you would never have been to no convent.

Are we going to be there soon?

I would say, Would you die for him or her?

She will!

Yes, I can speak Mandarin.

Will you like all your children? Of course not.

Not a person. Not a soul.

No, disturbances wouldn't disturb me, not for a single second.

He tends to be late for meetings.

You can swim, but I can't.