29On Monday morning, Molly stood in front of her armoire trying to find something to wear to Madame Gervais’s funeral, her thoughts disordered and anxious.
“I never have anything to wear. I need to make a shopping trip, maybe to Bordeaux? But talking about buying clothes—or anything, really—seems so out of place, in the face of…hey! Did we ever ask Paul-Henri about Violette’s family? And, this is a grisly thought, but what about her funeral?”
“I asked Paul-Henri a few days after the murder. Violette has a sister who lives in the States. Both Crespelle parents are dead.”
“Oh. Not that I would want any parent to have to go through losing a child, but it seems even sadder that Violette doesn’t have them to mourn for her.”
“The sister has asked that the body be cremated, so I suppose there
