She doesn""t know that he will end up as a civilian engineer in the war effort:Annabelle Lee: Why didn""t you enlist?Johnnie: They wouldn""t take me.Patience searched on the Internet about cats in history to learn more about the Egyptian Mau.Back at Ophelia""s house, she discovered that the Maus were sacred messengers of the Egyptian goddess Bast ("a goddess of the moon and of the sun") that represented duality ("docile, yet aggressive, nurturing yet ferocious").He relented from his death wish, but broke down, weeping: "I miss you...I""ll see you later.I""ll see you much later." [He had been married for 11 years before his wife was recently killed in a car accident.] At work, his superiors worried that Riggs was "on the edge," "psychotic," and "suicidal" and shouldn""t be in the field...It will not be in the least like old times.They are not that kind of lady at all....They are not coming for fun.These are nuns.Do you know what a nun is? They kneel and pray all day like the monks you invited last year.I""m going to give them this house to make a school and a hospital for the people.Ayah was clearly irritated and disappointed hat the new "lady" occupants would be fun-denouncing nuns - unlike the debauched consorts in older glory days who used to occupy he house when the General""s father was alive.Mr.Andrews: That""s because you""ve always been a stubborn idiot.Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.She knocks away her father""s fork (with a piece of steak on it), overturns his tray of food all over the floor, and he reacts by slapping her - she is surprised.