Chapter 8I take Laurent with me to talk to Guy Legler. He is not my first choice, but Paul is busy with a tourist family who have bumped their rental car. The husband is red-faced and looks as if he might cry, the wife is badgering him and criticising him, and the children – two girls, both teenagers – are flirting with Paul. Paul's face is sweating and he looks exasperated while Laurent smiles smugly as he and I abandon the poor man to his fate.
“Hah, that'll teach him,” Laurent says. “He usually dumps the losers on me, but this time he got stuck with them because I was in the toilet. Serves him right, I'm fed up getting all the rubbish to deal with.”
I say nothing. I can't be bothered with pettiness. We arrive at the apartment building and enter. Michelle has rented one of the ground f
