They were close to Linz. Monasteries, nunneries, rich men's houses, and outlying towns came frequently. In the middle of Eliza's sermon about the plight of white slaves in North Africa, Jack (just to see what would happen) slowed, then stopped before the gates of an especially gloomy and dreadful Gothickal convent. Eerie Papist chanting came out of it. Suddenly Eliza was off on a new topic.