Chapter SixteenTo Rafferty's relief, when he and Llewellyn spoke to the long-standing neighbours of the Jones' family, it was to discover that the Annemarie Jones who had lived at the old family address in Mercers' Lane, behind East Hill, had indeed gone on to become a nun. It had been the talk of the neighbourhood at the time, as Mrs Smithson, the elderly woman who still lived in the next door terrace confirmed once the three of them were seated round her kitchen table, the tea had been poured and Rafferty had led up to this question.
'I must say, I didn't expect her to go through with it,' Mrs Smithson told them as she sipped her tea. 'I was surprised when I heard that she was serious about it. Annemarie had always been an impetuous sort of girl, given to sudden enthusiasms. I assumed t
