Joelle on the family secrets
Joelle had this weird fear that Gompert, who made Joelle extremely nervous at the best of times, would come home and walk in and find Joelle cleaning with her hair in a kerchief and veil damply clinging.
Context
The veil worn straight through domestic scut-work, sweat-damp and clinging under a kerchief — open hiding carried into labor nobody's watching, and the fear is not of being unveiled but of being seen veiled like this, the sacrament reduced to soggy housework gear.