Reason for Being by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9780373111800
Google: IEq6tMUs-qUC
Goodreads: 2692195
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1989-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

It wasn't very far to the convent school, which was housed in a Victorian mansion some fifteen miles away.

Maggie was a good driver. Marcus had taught her, and she was used to the winding country lanes. Even so, she was surprised to see how much the volume of traffic had increased in the time she had been away. However, they reached the school in good time. Maggie parked the car and, while the girls went off to find their friends, she hurried towards the main door to the school.

Inside it was much as she remembered: the familiar smell of chalk and disinfectant. Black-robed nuns moved silently through the corridors, their faces composed.

She herself had never experienced any kind of vocation, but as she looked at them now she marvelled at their inner serenity.

The secretary's office was a busy jumble of papers and books; the secretary herself, new since Maggie's days as a pupil, smiled warmly at her and asked how she could help.

Maggie explained briefly, and asked if it was possible to make an appointment to see the Reverend Mother.

'I think she could possibly see you now,' she was told. 'If you'd just like to wait while I check.'

The secretary returned almost immediately.

'Yes, she can. If you'd just like to go through.'

Both the room and its occupant had changed since Maggie's day. Reverend Mother was somewhere in her late thirties, a tall, very attractive woman with an air of calm peace and authority about her.

Accepting both a chair and a cup of coffee, Maggie quickly explained the position.

'The two Deveril girls… Yes, I remember hearing that their brother had been injured in an accident. You say you've come home to take charge…' She looked speculatively at Maggie. 'I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure what relationship…'

'I'm their cousin,' Maggie explained. 'My father and their father were brothers. My father was the younger brother.'

'I see. So your cousin asked you if you could come home and take charge of the girls.'

'My cousin? I… Oh, I see. Marcus isn't exactly my cousin. His mother had been married before she married my uncle.'

'I see.' She gave Maggie an oddly thoughtful look. 'Well, girls of that age can be rather difficult for a man to bring up on his own.'

Before she left, Maggie had been given a list of the families living close by who had girls at the school, so that she could get in touch with them, with a view to sharing driving duties. She thanked the Reverend Mother for her help and made her way back to her car.

It only took her just over half an hour to drive into Hexham and park her car outside a large supermarket, which was new since her days of living locally.

The market was still there, though, she discovered a little later when the majority of her shopping was done. She wandered round it, and gave in to the temptation to buy several different portions of cheese from a farm produce stall. There were also

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