Chapter FiveBy the time they had conducted all the preliminary interviews, it was nearly nine o'clock at night, but before he left the convent, Rafferty instructed Llewellyn to go and see Dr Peterson, the community's general practitioner, and take a statement.
He started to add that they would go to see Father Kelly together afterwards – he knew, from previous acquaintance, that the old priest was something of a late bird – when, just in time, it struck him just how many mutual memories he and Father Kelly shared; more recent ones as well as ones stretching back to his youth and boyhood, memories that he would prefer the mischievous priest not to share with Llewellyn. So, after voicing one word of this latter idea, he carefully bit his lip on the rest.
'You were about to say something,'
