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Set in a twelfth-century convent, the narrative centers on Mary Antony, an elderly lay sister who safeguards the ritual counting of the order's veiled nuns by secretly using dried peas. Her private confidences with a tame robin and the small domestic routines that sustain her life are disrupted as outsiders—a prior, a chivalrous visitor and episcopal agents—enter the community. Misunderstandings, revelations and spiritual visions provoke moral dilemmas about obedience, love, penance and personal conscience. Illness, hidden letters and trials of loyalty culminate in healing and reconciliations that redefine relationships within the convent and resolve the story's principal emotional entanglements.