Chapter TwelveBut, before Rafferty took himself off to organise this alternative means of identifying their cadaver, he spied Sister Rita returning from Sext. He thought it might repay him if he put some of his thoughts to the community's most-earthy sister. Apart from any other things of interest he might learn from her, she had seen him in earnest conversation with Cecile so, if he had stumbled on the truth and that the murder of their man had been a joint effort by the sisters, he might be able to make her believe that Sister Cecile had inadvertently blurted something out.
He was hesitant to openly suggest that his current thinking was that this might have been a crime of passion or at least a crime provoked by passion spurned. But, to his embarrassment, his lack of forthrightness seem
