Le Mariage by Diane Johnson

Author:Diane Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

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Out on Bail

It took a week to return the shaken and furious Clara to her home on bail. A juge d‘instruction was assembling evidence for her eventual trial, promised for just before Christmas. Cray came for her with one of the lawyers, in the Land Rover—as he might have come to pick her up from the station after a shopping trip, she remarked bitterly when she walked out, shaking her hair and blinking in the bright autumn day, humbled, dirty, enraged. The forces of French justice arrayed themselves stiffly in the prison courtyard to watch her go. Cray sensed her anger.

“You wanted a limousine, you wanted some ceremony.” Cray laughed. “I should have realized.”

“No, no.” But she was inwardly angry with her husband that it had taken so long, and he with her because he had not been able to be more effective, though he had done everything he could. It was rumored that the American ambassador had complained on her behalf at the Quai d‘Orsay.

“Jean Beaumarché told me so himself,” said Christophe Oliver, the French lawyer with Biggs, Rigby, Denby, Fox.

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