A Sudden Change of Heart
A Sudden Change of Heart
“Laura said. “The way it was when I was studying at the Sorbonne, and you’d just arrived here with a husband and a baby. We really had a ball in those days, didn’t we?”
Claire laughed. “Yes, we did. And some baby she is today! Fourteen going on forty, taller than both of us and into makeup, clothes, and boys. You’ll get a shock when you see her, Laura. She’s really sprung up in the last couple of months.”
Laura nodded, settled back against the chair, and took a sip of her champagne.
The two women were sitting in Laura’s room at the hotel, lingering over their drinks before dinner. In the half hour they had spent greeting each other effusively and discussing the Renoir, the weather had turned nasty. By the time they had been ready to go to Benoît, one of their favorite bistros, it was snowing hard and, according to the doorman, an icy wind had blown up. And so they had agreed it would be much wiser to stay at the hotel and have room service.
“What do you feel like eating?”
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