Works of Mercy
Kirsty Sain, aging housekeeper for the newly arrived young priest, assumes that despite this personnel change in her rural parish, her own solitary rounds will proceed as always. When a hairless, eyeless kitten is thrust upon her, an unlikely deterrent to the mice invading her house, she declares, "I am not going to love that thing." She has spent a lifetime armoring herself against the risks of affection.