Uniforms, daily prayer, chapel, and strict discipline, those where the building blocks that molded the character of the young women that attended Lady of Mercy School for Girls!!! The theory being that by the time a girl graduated from Mercy she was ready to face the world!!! Of course in every organization there was always those few bad apples that bucked the system, whether it be in the army, the Boy Scouts, or as in this case a high school for girls, for some it is impossible to go along with the group and rules are made to be broken!!! In this case our story opens up in Sister Nora's twelfth grade math class where she is in the middle of a lecture on reciprocals....

"Now class this is important and I'm sure it will be on the next test, so if there are there any questions speak up now!!!" "Well that's just wonderful, no questions," she said a little sarcastically, "with the marks some of you are earning you'd think you'd have a question or two!!!" The room was dead quiet, when from the back row Zoey raised her hand, and in a sweet voice asked, "I have a question Sister Nora!!!" Sister Nora eyed the eighteen year old with a little suspicion and replied slowly, "Yes, Zoey, what is your question?!?"

After giggling softly Zoey asked, "My question is, when in my life time am I ever gonna hafta use the inverse proportion of a reciprocal!?!" Several of the girls gasped that Zoey would so openly ridicule one of the nuns, but they were quickly brought back to order when Sister Nora's ruler came down hard on her desk sounding for all the world like a rifle shot!!! She eyed the incorrigible girl for several seconds, and in a calm but stern voice Sister Nora replied, "I'm sure that after spending some time in the Mother Superior's office you can think of many ways to use the inverse proportion of a reciprocal!"