Chapter SixFather Roberto Kelly lived, with two other priests, in the Priests' House beside the parish church of St Boniface. The two buildings were situated in the ancient High Street, with its mishmash of building styles from the sizeable, detached, Victorian property on three floors that the priests shared, to the smaller, timber-framed, Tudor houses and others, older still, their small bricks pillaged from Roman remains.
Rafferty remembered his Ma telling him that as well as sharing a home, the priests also shared the services of a housekeeper, though he had gained the impression that Father Kelly made rather more use of the housekeeper's services than did his brother priests.
The door was opened to Rafferty's knock by the latest in a long line of these houseskeepers; a pretty, curly
