In my office at my school

I had just let Father Flynn leave after telling him I thought he was guilty. My fellow Sister, Sister James, proclaimed that she thinks he is innocent. She proclaims that I'm pursuing his removal from his position because, according to her, I "just don't like him." Now, she's not completely wrong. People who don't follow the rules others do cause problems. And Father Flynn is one of them. His nails are unruly, he uses a ballpoint pen instead of a pen and an inkwell, and he takes three lumps of sugar in his tea. Individually, these behaviors may not be problematic, but many of our young impressionable students look up to him. He encourages the wrong behaviors in our students. Sister James goes on to accuse my school of being run like a prison. I calmly address this accusation by asking her if she genuinely finds this to be true, and she admits that she does not but that the students are uniformly terrified of me. Good, I think. That's how it should be. I saw how she thought of me through what she said to me.