Summary

In Chapter 5, Benny takes the bus home and is met by her very worried parents as wildly inaccurate rumors about the accident circulate in the small village. Mother Francis asks her old friend Peggy Pine, who runs the local dress shop, to drive her to Dublin, where she visits Eve in the hospital. She says she will take her back to the convent to recuperate, assuring her that she will take care of the situation with Mother Clare. Before leaving the hospital, Mother Francis introduces herself to the grieving Kit Hegarty and, after comforting her, invites her to visit the convent in Knockglen when she feels better. Back in Knockglen, Mario, who owns a local restaurant, is resistant to the suggestions his nephew Fonsie makes for modernizing the place, and the Hogans' maid, Patsy, goes for a walk with her boyfriend, Mossy Rooney...