It is a leather-goods shop, selling suitcases and travel articles. I know that you have a shop, without a neon sign. You surely would want to know more about what she's like, but instead only a few elements surface on the written page, her face remains hidden by the smoke and her hair, you would need to understand beyond the bitter twist of her mouth what there is that isn't bitter and twisted. no, the author has- been circling around the feminine presence, for several pages you have been expecting this female shadow to take shape the way female shadows take shape on the written page, and it is your expectation, reader, that drives the author toward her and I, too, though I have other things to think about, there I let myself go, I speak to her, I strike up a conversation that I should break off as quickly as I can, in order to go away, disappear. Your attention, as reader, is now completely concentrated on the woman, already for several pages you have been circling around her, I have "I am the former Madame Marne," she answers. "In any case, nobody seems to doubt the fact that the doctor will try to avoid the former Madame Marne," I say to her. Chief Gorin comes off duty at the police station and they always drop by here, first one or first the other but what does that signify?
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