Friend is not the best description of Annie P cher s relation to Jeanine Deckers It might explain her repeated visits to Jeanine in the convent but scarcely her taking care to get herself a shack een kot near where Jeanine lived when studying in Leuven her falling into a deep depression and attempting suicide when it seemed that Jeanine was going to be sent to a mission country and above all Jeanine s making it clear to her when they went to live in the same house that she did not wish to enter into a relationship with her and wanted simply to live together as friends