5:00 PM, The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Chester, England
The Sisters had spent the rest of the day comforting Edward Mason’s daughters and his wife on her return to the house with the vicar. The vicar told them that arrangements had been made to bury the Mason men, but it would not happen until the sheriff had finished his enquiries. The vicar left soon after relating this, clearly uncomfortable amongst the weeping women. By late afternoon, relatives had arrived, and the Sisters felt able to make their way back to the monastery.
Rose deliberately steered their route in order to pass the Cathedral. As a youngster, she and the other children would play in the old ruins behind the church, Protestant and Catholic alike. The Webers, Masons, Caldwells, Jones and others would meet and
