As the contretemps blew up in Drummond Place between Sister Maria-Fiore and Antonia, just round the corner in Scotland Street, Domenica Macdonald settled at her desk to read a paper submitted to the anthropological journal on whose editorial board she served. Her duties as a member of the board were light – she attended a meeting every quarter, which gave her an expenses-paid trip to Oxford, she reviewed books in her particular area of expertise, and she assessed papers that had been submitted for publication.