Summary

After dinner, Mary tells Hal and Betty that she thinks one of the inmates is from her orphan asylum. Hal warns Mary not to tell anyone because she could get fired if people knew she was acquainted with an inmate in the past. Betty reminds Mary that all of the women at the Village have children’s minds. That night when she says her rosary, she adds Lillian and Sister Rosemary to her prayers.

When they were children, Sister Rosemary used to read to the children before bed. She remembers when Lillian broke her arm jumping from a big tree because a boy dared her too. Lillian is a foundling, and Sister Rosemary explained that foundlings, children abandoned by both parents, “are blessed with good fortune” (47). Sister Rosemary explained that back home she saw black magic, and she was often admonished by...