Behind the Bonehouse (2016)
“First they talked about the early eighteenth century painting she was restoring—the woman in a sweeping dress of deep teal silk, that might’ve been an unattributed Fragonard, which Camille would finish varnishing by noon the next day. Then they touched on their lives since the war, quickly, lightly, without detail or emotion. Finally they turned to Tours in ’44, and the treachery that destroyed the Touraine Resistance.
They worked their way slowly and carefully, as the sun sank beside them,... to Jack’s suspicion that Henri Reynard had been the traitor. He told her eventually, as the air grew chilly and her eyes disappeared in the night, that being suspected had tortured him for years. That he’d drunk himself nearly to death, living in a shack in a North American forest, that he’d only stopped two years before and begun to reclaim his life.
Camille listened, and nodded, and told him what she had witnessed during and after the war—the lives warped and lost and perverted, the souls saved and restored, the joy and gratitude that abounded in some, in spite of hatred and horror.MoreLess
They worked their way slowly and carefully, as the sun sank beside them,... to Jack’s suspicion that Henri Reynard had been the traitor. He told her eventually, as the air grew chilly and her eyes disappeared in the night, that being suspected had tortured him for years. That he’d drunk himself nearly to death, living in a shack in a North American forest, that he’d only stopped two years before and begun to reclaim his life.
Camille listened, and nodded, and told him what she had witnessed during and after the war—the lives warped and lost and perverted, the souls saved and restored, the joy and gratitude that abounded in some, in spite of hatred and horror.MoreLess
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