Do As You re ToldChapter 17
Sister Janice was now sixty-eight years of age and far from as alert as in her younger days, so she didn’t notice the signs of the break-in at the convent of Saint Jeanne’s. The orphanage was affiliated with and administered by the convent and all of its permanent staff were nuns or novices. There were some forty-nine orphans at this point, thirty of them boys and nineteen girls, though these were kept separate as always as much as possible. Julian recalled that from his own adolescence, how...