 He eventually confesses to having experimented with homosexuality and dissolute behavior as a young man, and it is implied there is an unrequited sexual component to his love for the present bishop, Allie Undercroft.In "A Severed Wasp", Katherine also has a portrait painted by Philippa "Flip" Hunter, protagonist of L'Engle's 1949 novel "And Both Were Young".Katherine Forrester Vigneras appears very briefly in L'Engle's 1980 novel "A Ring of Endless Light", playing a recital that Vicky Austin and Zachary Gray attend.