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Ben burst through the door of La Baraque, finding Molly at the stove.
“I’m so late, very sorry—I got stuck on the back road behind a broken-down tractor. Sat there for hours, with no cell service.”
“I did wonder,” said Molly, stirring some buttered carrots in a copper saucepan. She held out her cheek for him to kiss and went back to stirring. “I had invited the gîte guests for dinner. I know the timing’s bad, but I needed to talk to them, and it seemed like a good idea at the time. But forget that, it doesn’t matter! Let me tell you what the adorable Inès Bériot had to tell me.”
Molly finished setting the table while relating the conversation. When she got to the connection with Alaina Petit, Ben clapped his hands together, very pleased.
“Well, it’s obvious what happened,” he said.
