36Molly spent the afternoon on a cloud. She didn’t dare call anyone or go to Chez Papa—the secret of finding La Sfortuna would be too hard to hold back. So instead, she turned off her phone, ate a prodigious number of croissants, and gave Bobo an extravagant amount of petting and liver treats. The orange cat even got a saucer of cream. Molly was feeling generous to the universe and ecstatic that the ugly pressure of those bills had been lifted from her shoulders all at once. It was hard to believe it was really happening.
Of course, it is the way of the world that no happiness is a hundred percent pure, and even while she gorged on pastry and wandered around La Baraque seeing a million new things to spend money on, she was still wondering whether Maron had arrested Esmé. Worrying about wh
