Delphine woke up a little after two in the afternoon and Maggie put together a late lunch of cold cuts. Just before they sat down, the phone rang. Maggie hesitated to answer it, fearing it might be Michelle again—and she still hadn’t sorted out in her mind what she was going to do about that—but Delphine picked it up and spoke tartly into the receiver in quick French to whoever was on the other end. “Everything okay?” Maggie asked as Delphine came back to the dining table. “That was Noel. He is downstairs and needing the code to enter. I told him to go get bread and come back.” It made sense that Noel would come—especially if he was in town—but Maggie worried about the after effects of the conversation he’d had with Delphine yesterday morning. Would he table his personal agenda long enough to comfort his aunt? It suddenly occurred to Maggie that with Gerard out of the picture, Noel would inherit a much larger share of Delphine’s fortune.
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