Puffs of White Smoke ~ 2:09 p.m.

"And when the choice is made, the camerlengo asks the candidate:  "Do you accept?"  A heavy question that can turn ambition into anguish.  Some men must have wanted to refuse.  But when a candidate answers, "I accept," in that instant of assent he becomes the successor to the See of St. Peter.
The pope-elect is then escorted to an adjoining room.  There he finds white papal cassocks in three sizes.  He chooses one, changes from the colorful garb of a cardinal ~ and spends some moments alone.  What is it like, this historic room?
...down the dark hall behind the Sistine altar...enter a small room of irregular shape, built long ago, perhaps for storage, certainly not for ceremony.
"The name of the room says everything:  the Room of Tears."
"Once the new pontiff is dressed, it is time to burn the ballots and send the puffs of white smoke up the chimney ~ the signal of resolution to the expectant crowds in St. Peter's Square.  The camerlengo then appears on a balcony and shouts "Habemus papam!  We have a pope!"

~ Bart McDowell, Inside the Vatican