The Patron Saint of Liars

At Saint Elizabeth’s, the girls are expected to work while living there, and Rose is assigned to the kitchen to work with Sister Evangeline, who is very old. Rose becomes very interested in this work and begins looking through cookbooks to find new recipes. Sister Evangeline takes a liking to Rose and tells her that her baby is going to be a girl. Sister Evangeline has the ability to predict the genders and futures of the girls’ babies, though Mother Corinne doesn’t like her to. When Rose tells Sister Evangeline that she plans to place her baby up for adoption, Sister Evangeline tells her that she won’t.

Later that night, Rose tells Angie what Sister Evangeline said. Angie immediately wants Sister Evangeline to tell her about her baby’s future, and she reflects on potential baby names. She reveals to Rose that her former boss at the pharmacy she worked at impregnated her. She has never told anyone this, especially not her boyfriend, Duane. When she got pregnant, her boss offered to pay for the baby’s expenses, but Angie didn’t want to have a married man’s baby. Her mother sent her to Saint Elizabeth’s, telling friends and family that she was visiting cousins.