He was astonished to hear that the monks never spoke, got up at two in the morning and slept in their coffins.

"Why listen, Lady," he said with a grin of delight, "the monks of old slept in their coffins!"

Above the arcades ran long dormitories where the monks slept.

A monk slept in front of each window.

The dormitory is a big gothic room where the monks slept together: only the abbot was allowed to have his own room.

He knew the cells were all empty, for the monks slept in chambers on a lower level.

I understood a monk rose and slept with the sun.

The upper floor and cloister was where the monks slept, studied and prayed and was not open to the public.

The monk slept a little, scratching in his sleep and muttering.

We are all in God's hands," the monk said and slept again.