Now that consideration fell away entirely, because the doctor’s words had turned a delicate embarrassment into something with a shape and an intent.

Someone was entering locked rooms in her convent at night and putting her sisters to sleep in order to do — what?

She did not yet know.

But a person does not go to the enormous trouble of sedating a house full of nuns for no reason, and whatever the reason was, it required them helpless and unconscious and unable to witness it.

Inmaculada was done thinking about scandal.