A Place of Safety
“It was dawning on her that he’d reacted far more strongly to her comment about the Clouet drawings than all her insinuations that Goode & Floore’s might be paying him to rig the market for them.
Had there been something wrong with the Clouets? Could they, rather than drugs or the fear of losing his job, be the source of the pressure that was making him so afraid? Had he had evidence that they weren’t genuine when he’d originally taken them to Goode & Floore’s? Evidence that someone else had now... uncovered and was being used to blackmail him?
Steve was muttering behind Trish about how no one could guarantee success at the Bar, but only deserve it. Usually his Churchillian exhortations made her laugh, but today she had too much to worry about to be amused by anything. On her way out of the clerks’ room, she paused to say: ‘Did you know that your hero once told Siegfried Sassoon that man’s natural activity is war?’ ‘No,’ he said, looking more favourably on her.MoreLess
Had there been something wrong with the Clouets? Could they, rather than drugs or the fear of losing his job, be the source of the pressure that was making him so afraid? Had he had evidence that they weren’t genuine when he’d originally taken them to Goode & Floore’s? Evidence that someone else had now... uncovered and was being used to blackmail him?
Steve was muttering behind Trish about how no one could guarantee success at the Bar, but only deserve it. Usually his Churchillian exhortations made her laugh, but today she had too much to worry about to be amused by anything. On her way out of the clerks’ room, she paused to say: ‘Did you know that your hero once told Siegfried Sassoon that man’s natural activity is war?’ ‘No,’ he said, looking more favourably on her.MoreLess
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