Uncle Gaston And NieceChapter 7
Shortly, it began to rain and Madeleine walked aimlessly in it. She had taken a cab to M. Girarde's office rather than to drive and have to search out a parking place in downtown traffic, and now in the aftermath of the degrading incident the Ministre Of Gouvernment had subjected her to, she found herself wandering erratically along hardly familiar streets, the summer downpour nearly soaking her. Dear God, in all of her young life she had never felt so despondent... so all alone as she did...