The Tiger Claw
“The tiny brass nameplate still read Dunet. Feverish and wool-headed, Noor took the stone-flagged path and knocked at the arched wooden door she remembered only too well.
What had possessed her to return, like a criminal to the scene of a crime? She was making an exception to SOE rules, but Montparnasse was a long distance from Suresnes and other areas where she might be recognized.
Some events in one’s life stay forever.
And she had a problem again, a problem that needed a practical though ille...gal solution.
The woman framed in the doorway had faded a little in nine years. The mane of coarse hair falling to her elbows was greyer and sparser, but her face was the same, harsh with disappointments. Madame Dunet was a sage-femme, a midwife. Once a nurse at the American Hospital, she was competent as a physician.
Noor gave her name as Anne-Marie Régnier, and beyond noting that Mademoiselle Régnier was sans rendezvous—without appointment—no flicker of recognition came to the midwife’s eyes.MoreLess
What had possessed her to return, like a criminal to the scene of a crime? She was making an exception to SOE rules, but Montparnasse was a long distance from Suresnes and other areas where she might be recognized.
Some events in one’s life stay forever.
And she had a problem again, a problem that needed a practical though ille...gal solution.
The woman framed in the doorway had faded a little in nine years. The mane of coarse hair falling to her elbows was greyer and sparser, but her face was the same, harsh with disappointments. Madame Dunet was a sage-femme, a midwife. Once a nurse at the American Hospital, she was competent as a physician.
Noor gave her name as Anne-Marie Régnier, and beyond noting that Mademoiselle Régnier was sans rendezvous—without appointment—no flicker of recognition came to the midwife’s eyes.MoreLess
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