“Yes,” she said tonelessly, “write it down. The nonsense has got to stop. Sister Mary has her place in our structure. She earned it by rejecting the stepfather’s sexual demands. Sister Mary, because of her religious leanings, has been greeted by heartfelt scorn among us; yet she’s the one who said no to the stepfather. Of course she wasn’t the one who paid; Rabbit took the pain whenever the stepfather lashed out.”
