Possible Clues:

• What makes bishop be taken in by idiot woman trying to be religious?
• Head of convent
• Could Elizabeth be a seaman? Only if she's away from the house
• She heads a religious community
• Superior
• How the seaman gets to Elizabeth as head of the house
• Person in charge of convent
• Elizabeth follows the seaman to the top of the community
• Superior in a convent
• Mother keeping the house in order