"A nun isn't inviolable," Agatha told him firmly. "I understand rape, Patrick. I am the patron of rape victims and rape is never the victim's fault. But," she added, "I am not an ordinary woman. No man who had tried to rape me has ever succeeded because God had stopped them. That's who I am. That's what I am! God and man made me as a symbol of purity and chastity and... with one touch of her hand, Lust took that from me." She shook her head and clutched her glass. "I've been in America for more a hundred years and nothing in that time has ever come close to breaking the vow I took... until now. God removed His protection and I... I don't know why, only that I must have failed Him in some way."