Chapter 19

The evening was shaping up pretty well... Apart from the fact that Mrs. Dupuis and Mrs. Hailey wore the same hat and she had a hard time telling them apart, everything was going well. She was trying to maintain the same detached look that Mirabelle had, but she had trouble doing it... She had learned more than fifty names by heart and now she was afraid to call someone by name. from someone else. Without forgetting that she should especially avoid talking about goods to a banker thinking that he was the wealthy businessman on the west coast... Just like she had just done with Mr. Cadet...

As she was alone, she quickly made up for it by saying that she had been mistaken and that Mr. Cadet looked strangely like a wealthy merchant she had met... Elzhar hadn't spoken to her, he hadn't told her. didn't even give a look... Did she disgust him or what? It wasn't the prettiest dress, but he still could have pretended to stare at her! It was really...revolting! He was content only to make conv