Chapter Forty-TwoMolly and Constance did get through the cleaning, although not quite as thoroughly as Molly usually insisted on. Thomas had called Constance, there had been meetings, there had been kissing and abject apologies and grand promises made, but Molly had listened with only half an ear. She kept leaning the mop against a wall and calling Dufort, thinking about the necklace, about Valerie, about stupid Lapin who could have instantly led them straight to her if he hadn’t been so lazy and sloppy with his record-keeping.
Herman De Groot had shown up and all was bliss again with the honeymooners, and blessedly, they were picked up on time. Molly and Constance cleaned the pigeonnier in short order, Constance biked off to meet Thomas, and the new guests, a South African family, were i
