He looked at her confused as she started laughing, but then when the story came out, Gabriel sighed lightly. She was the ex-nun. Father Kemble had spent about twenty minutes of his introduction complaining about her - which had made Gabriel more suspicious of Kemble than of the nun, despite her sins. "Look miss... Calamity, isn't it?..." He had wondered if that was her real name, but he hadn't wanted to ask the priest, afraid of another twenty minutes wasted. "Religious life is a special vocation, and very few of us are truly called to it, or have what it takes. So many are sent away before they take vows. But nobody can be thrown out of the church, not even by us priests." And the last thing Gabriel wanted was to make her feel unwelcome, whatever her sins. He was determined to lead sheep into the fold, not chase them away.