Chapters 15 and 16 Summary

In Chapter 15, Mary volunteers to take on Veronica's role in the Temple, while Veronica is recovering. One afternoon, when Mary and Margery are in a teaching session, Margery's assistant brings her a note that one of the Temple members is in need. Mary offers to walk with Margery to the home of the member. While the two women are walking, Mary hears footsteps approaching from a run behind them, so she pushes Margery out of the way and Mary finds herself face to face with a man yielding a knife. The man stabs Mary while she is defending Margery. Mary breaks the nose of the man with her head and wrenches the knife from the man's hands. Mary then breaks the man's arm. As Mary leaves the police station, she runs into Holmes as she is walking home to her flat...