In the name of the Virgin, what does he expect you to do?” “Prayer,” I said. “Sir Walter Hungerford needs me to say the Dominican blessing. As I did for Baron Montagu. That is why I am here.” “You can pray from back here,” said Geoffrey. “You should...
But he came close to losing that calm when confronted with my refusal to leave England to learn the third and final part of the prophecy. “You come from an English family that was destroyed by the king, you served Katherine of Aragon, you prayed at the executions of the Lady Mary’s friends,” he s...
I saw the resentment in their faces about the requiem feast in three days’ time. Sitting next to me at the novices’ table, closest to the door, Sister Christina barely touched her soup or bread. I felt protective of her; I believed she was embarrassed by her father’s request. I knew that many nov...