"Of course you must believe, but you must also believe in your ability to stretch out a hand and pick up a glass of water - but belief is the motive force, not the instrument itself." Her voice has the air of someone who has had an argument like this before, more than once, and is already very tired of it.

"I know I am going to regret asking this," she adds, with clear and pronounced suffering, turning her eyes to the heavens, "But how did the furniture of who or whatever a Beato is assist you?"