Chapter 13In court Cassandra gave the best performance you ever saw as the innocent upper-class young woman who wouldn't ever dream of breaking the law. She told the judge that she'd only been trying to sell a painting that had chanced to come into her possession…a painting which she took to be a Rembrandt original. As for her being a murderer, well, that was just ridiculous, Cassandra assured everyone…and she chose that moment to break out into a round of sobs which seemed to express the indignation of an honest woman wrongly accused. Her timing was perfect.
The judge set bail at two hundred grand.
Cassandra was outraged. Where was she going to get that kind of money from?
She asked her lawyer, Jon Prowse, what she was supposed to do now, and he advised her to ask her father to come up
