![]() ![]() Cleverly, carefully, she keeps the doctor at bay, denying him access to the deepest secrets of her past.Īll the while, however, Roseanne is at work on a personal narrative of the very facts she withholds from her doctor-the "secret scripture" of the novel’s title. Reluctant to cooperate but curiously compassionate toward him, the ancient woman impresses him as "a formidable person," and indeed she is. Grene is evaluating the facility’s patients to make dispassionate recommendations about which ones are mentally fit to resume life in society.Īs he interviews Roseanne to determine her mental state his neutrality evaporates. Now, in compliance with a change in government policy that has decreed the closing of the hospital, Dr. Grene is the senior psychiatrist, since the days of World War II. She has been confined in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, where Dr. ![]() Roseanne McNulty, one hundred years old, was one of the most beautiful girls in County Sligo, Ireland, in her youth. William Grene’s interest in the almost impossibly old woman is merely professional, tinged perhaps with a hint of curiosity. ![]()
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