Chapter 27
St. Luke’s was a large, gothic structure that sat about midway between Guilford and Whetstone Point up on a hill close to a residential area inhabited mostly by immigrants from France and Spain, though as Baltimore continued to grow the demographics continued to shift and change. Scarlet paused outside of the edifice, looking up at flying buttresses and pointed arches and thought for a moment this must be what it is like to live in Europe. She realized shortly, however, that she was just stalling and that she might as well go in and get the uncomfortable meeting out of the way. She certainly wouldn’t have been willing to walk through those imposing doors for anyone else, but for Ms. Ginny, she’d make the sacrifice.
The interior was dark except for rays of sunlight filtering th
