The candidate retains postulant status throughout seminary, until ordination to the transitional diaconate takes place. Jacqueline announced that she would soon become a postulant in the Jansenist convent of Port-Royal. The next morning, the former postulant seems ready to abandon her convent plans. In Salzburg, Austria in 1938, Maria is a free-spirited young postulant at Nonnberg Abbey. The postulant is startled, but quickly smitten with Lancelot, as Lancelot is with her. The other postulant was Mary Anne ( Sr Agnes) Boylson who was born in Sydney. After a few months as a postulant at the Brompton Oratory, he left. A seemingly young Manchu woman, Lo-Tsen, is another postulant at the lamasery. He was, for about six weeks, a postulant with the Carthusians at Neuville. The order accepted her as a postulant, inviting her to enter on August 15, 1944.