Only Gail was moving amid this inactivity, banging her palm on a table. She was shouting at Baron Melchior, and Ophelia could clearly read the word “innocence” on her lips. Would they remain friends after all this? Ophelia had the unpleasant feeling of finding herself on the wrong side of the fence, as though justice was the real guilty party. In the end, weren’t Mother Hildegarde’s employees the victims, more than the accomplices, in this affair?
