They suspect the worst and they DO blame him - they believe that he is a disgraceful coward.In front of Annabelle's house, Johnnie's girlfriend asks her brother and father: "Did Johnnie enlist?" She learns of their scornful opinion of her boyfriend: "He didn't even get in line." [Appropriately, the half-hidden director of the film is shown holding all the cards - the full suit of spades, and he is similarly regarded as being sick by the doctor: "You don't look very well either.It commented upon the idea that the good-intentioned but world-denying nuns had been unnecessarily dispatched to rescue and bring much-needed services to the natives, and to 'convert' the locals to their restrictive world-view of rewards found in the after-life.But she was realistically screaming: "Somebody help...This isn't funny anymore." She was grabbed, thrust backward into a bent metal spike on a broken gate - and the impaling spike emerged from her chest(# 6 death).