Chapter 2
Sister Julienne´s gaze thanked to Sister Mary Cynthia. The young nun, with her gente firmness, lowered the high level of enthusiasm that Sister Winifred could not manage. If she excited with a travel by bus, the adventure in Africa was too much for her, so Sister Mary Cynthia reminded her that they were not there for tourism, but to work in harsh conditions. Sister W. stopped talking and everyone appreciated that.
They were welcomed by Dr Fitzsimmons, who was in charge of the mission´s hospital, and for two natives who helped her. Inmediately, they shown the rooms that they occuply and the general (and bad) situation of the hospital.
When she closed the bedroom's door, Shelagh knew that to accept that trip was the worst idea of her life. She put the Patrick´s health ahead for her suffering by leaving her children with the granny, believing that the change would clear her husband of his sins. Just an hour in that place was enough to know that Patrick returned to England more tired and more frustrated than he was. And she too, because she added the coldness with Sister Julienne. She could not understand why Sister J. was unfair to her, putting distance merely by give her opinión and promote a method that would aliviate much of the suffering of Poplar. It was the first time that her past was heavy, because she knew she was being judged for being a former nun and now a married woman. She knew that someday she receive recriminations for that, but she not expected from Sister Julienne and much less hidden under the question of contraceptive pill. Every time she thought, she could feel her anger grew. She loved Julienne with her soul, as her mother, even her daughter carried her name, but the Sister Julienne´s atittude bothered her so much. Shelagh had not even been able to confort Sister Julienne when Sister Evangelina gone, because Sister Julienne put a cold cortesy between them, far from the warmth that they always shared.
And everything was for the damn pill. She wanted to approach her and talk, but she didn't how. She hoped that the trip was not in vain and that aspect of her life, would be cure.