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I wonder if Maguy knows I am here waiting at the airport, if she's pleased I've been so summarily dealt with by the police and Monsieur Hourrichon. But she's not a malicious person so perhaps not. She's probably with Albert anyway and not thinking about me at all. Albert is all she cares about these days which is understandable given he's her ticket out of New Caledonia, so naturally she goes to a lot of trouble to please him.
An extraordinary amount of trouble sometimes. Like the day she went to the beauty salon.
It was a Saturday afternoon, I remember, only a few months ago. I was playing with the cat when I heard her charm-laden key jingling in the ...