But on the first Monday of November his secretary, Tina, gave him the rundown of the week ahead and reminded him that he had scheduled a discovery examination in Tate’s wrongful-dismissal suit against the church. Discovery was the opportunity for each party to question the other on oath before trial. He would question Befanee Tate; at some point later her lawyer would question Monsignor O’Flaherty and Father Burke. The fact that discovery was proceeding so expeditiously was an indication of how simple — and, from Monty’s perspective, how frivolous — the lawsuit was. Monty considered the whole thing a waste of time and a waste of the church’s money. Tate should have taken the month’s pay she had been offered. Instead, she apparently hoped to milk the claim for all she could get, including damages for mental anguish. Not a chance.He made a call to St. Bernadette’s to let the priests know that the discovery was on but they were not obligated to attend. Burke was out but O’Flaherty was there, so Monty filled him in.
