held his hands, steering him back to the car as he paced unsteadily along, face set in fierce determination.
‘I know the feeling,’ she told him as she lifted him back into his seat for the short drive to Les Sables. ‘And from now on, my love, it’s you and me against the world.’
The house stood alone, grey and solid against the slender clustering pine trees behind it. Allie eased the car along the track, remembering her father’s concern that Tante should have chosen such an isolated spot.
‘It wouldn’t do for me,’ he’d said, shaking his head. ‘The silence would drive me crazy.’
Tante had laughed gently. ‘But there is no silence, mon cher.
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