‘Did you know all the time—about her?’ Wilson asked. ‘It’s why I came home. Mrs Carter wrote to me. She said everybody was talking. Of course he never realized that. He thought he’d been so clever. And he nearly convinced me—that it was finished. Going to communion the way he did.’ ‘How did he square that with his conscience?’ ‘Some Catholics do, I suppose. Go to confession and start over again. I thought he was more honest though. When a man’s dead one begins to find out.’ ‘He took money from Yusef.’ ‘I can believe it now.’ Wilson put his hand on Louise’s shoulder and said, ‘You can trust me,
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