, "It has been said, Rene's mother was a nun. This sounds odd as nuns don't marry, but widows are allowed to become nuns and this had happened with Rene's mother. One fine day she became ill and her convent sent her for a spell to Pigotts to be cared for by her son and daughter-in-law. So there she was in bed upstairs in the big house being waited on by Joan. Not only that, but she insisted on wearing her nun's white coif which Joan ironed and starched every morning..."" Translator in particular of the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.