— So, listen. I rewrote that list I’d drawn up. Remember the one? Lots of points on it are cleared up. You should go back now and see Nogues senior again. He’s the one who knows the most about the whole case. He was actually there when it all happened!
Thomas was so happy to have the misunderstanding about Olivier cleared up, that he decided to be generous.
— Would you like to come with me? I’ll go in civvies, on my free time.
Nogues was very courteous. He even apologized.
— If I’d only known why you wanted to see my son that day you stopped by, I wouldn’t have gone on and on about my favorite subject! I would have told you straight taway about the little Grandet girl. Frankly, after twenty years, I never thought the whole awful business would ever come up again. Those first few years,
