Chapter 26When I ring the bell at the Dupree residence the door is immediately opened a small crack and Madame Dupree peers out. After identifying who's there she ushers me inside the house. I see she's already holding her handbag and as I enter she leaves and pulls the door shut behind her. The hallway is dark and the only light source is a small lamp on the hall table. The doors into the rooms of the apartment are open. Light would normally flood in from the windows, particularly on a sunny day like today, but the heavy wooden shutters outside the windows are closed, causing an eerie darkness.
“Mother doesn't want anyone to know I'm home,” Raymond says, nodding towards the shuttered windows. “She's ashamed of me,” he states. “I'm ashamed of myself, but not for loving Veronique. I'm asha
