Chapter 18
GISELE TOLD NELLIE where to go for the Science Guild meeting that night, and Nellie was nervous. It sounded all secret and mysterious.
Nellie’s apprehension was not made any better when she heard Gisele would not be going. She had monk duties to fulfil. “I already spend so much time doing other things. I need to attend the weekly service for giving thanks. If I’m not at the church, there will be talk.”
Nellie understood, but it didn’t make her feel any easier about meeting a room full of strangers by herself.
Gisele told her the names of some of the people who would be there, but Nellie didn’t know any of them personally, and there were even some people whose names she had never heard. They sounded like important businessmen.
As to what they normally spoke about, Gisele sai
