Sister Margaret was a Geography teacher at the high school. Father Black was the parish priest assigned to the school and the spiritual mentor for the 300 students and the Order who lived in the convent next door. Sister had been teaching there for the three years since she had taken her final vows and dedicated her life to her religion. She was one of the youngest nuns and even the severe black habit could do little to hide the fact that there was a pretty young woman behind the cowl, the veil and the voluminous black robes.
It was 4:15 and Thomas Cowan sat defiantly in the detention room under the watchful eye of the young nun. She wasn't sure what to do with him. She wanted to make the point of his unacceptability without having him expelled. She felt Cowan would be lost if the school
