Summary

Sister Illuminata resents Sister Jeanne's youth and skill taking care of young children. Sister Jeanne is delighted by young children and is a practical nurse who often works with children who are sick or neglected and abused toddlers. Sister Jeanne takes care of Sally while Annie is away. Sister Jeanne believes that all loss, even the loss of Jim, would be restored, thinking that "fairness demanded it" (52). She thinks that God intends to be fair, although she sees children suffering from illness or abuse in her daily trips to down. She questions whether Jim's death could gain restitution, since it was his choice to take his own life, so "the logic of redemption, all undone" (54). Sister Lucy returns and says that she is smarter and from a "better stock" (56), and that the nuns constitute her purgatory. Seeing that Sister Jeanne is...