Chapter ThirteenWhile they waited for Professor Amos to perform his 'magic' Rafferty, with Llewellyn in tow, returned to the convent to again question the postulant, Teresa Tattersall, about her past.
Unsurprisingly, as on the earlier occasion that Rafferty had questioned her about it, she showed a marked reluctance to talk about her previous life at all. It was only when Rafferty appealed to Mother Catherine to speak to the young woman in her care that Teresa agreed to open up further.
Rafferty, believing she would speak more easily out in the open and away from the rest of the community, found them a bench well away from the vegetable garden where Sisters Rita and Benedicta were working. Rafferty sat beside her, with Llewellyn propped a few feet away against a tree, so the young woman
