The Defeated Aristocrat
“I’ve notice Cherie runs the moment she sees Sister Ignatius. She’s a large middle-aged woman, plain even for a nun. Cherie doesn’t always manage to get away, and when she doesn’t, we know we’re going to have to do without Cherie for half an hour. That nun can talk faster and longer than any auctioneer.’‘What does she talk to Cherie about?’‘I don’t know because she takes Cherie around the corner where they can’t be overheard. But I do know whatever it is, Cherie doesn’t like it.’‘She argues with them?’ Ralf suggested.‘Cherie would go like a lamb to the slaughter, sir. She hasn’t it in her to fight or argue with anyone. When she can’t get away from Sister Ignatius she hangs her head and nods agreement with whatever the nun says.’Dorothea returned and bobbed a curtsy to Ralf. ‘Cherie’s not in the Stork, sir. I’ve looked everywhere.’‘The old stables? I’ve seen her in there talking to the women and children.’‘That was the first place I went, sir.’‘Are her things still in her room?’‘Such as... they are, sir.MoreLess
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