Chapter 8My suspicions proved right – Sister Sue had spent most of her life in a convent. A while back, the convent had inherited a large house from a wealthy benefactor, which the Mother Superior decided Sister Sue – Sister Agnes, actually – now in her advancing years, should put to good use. Every summer she would have some ten or twelve children from various backgrounds and generally issued from dysfunctional families to stay at the ranch-like house for a few weeks. This was one of the reasons she drove a comfortable mini-van. After lengthy and somewhat heated discussions between her and Mark, he finally agreed to drive the mini-van to Detroit. Sister Agnes told us that she would fly to Detroit the day after next and pick up her van in the airport’s parking lot, once Mark would have pho
