Lunchtime read: Aimez-vous Brahms...

The young lawyer keeps doggedly perusing the older woman and is handed a nugget when he discovers that her lover Roger is cheating on her, something he keeps to himself presumably to be used later, quite when we will see in the next couple of days

Chapter six
Simon invites Paule to a concert..Aimez-vous Brahms...and meets her in the foyer after he has been driving out in the country and she has been killing time at home. On his jaunt in the countryside he met Roger with a girl and although he doesn’t reveal that he tells Paule that she is alone and he loves her

Chapter seven
Roger returns with his mistress and heads straight round to see Paule who has just got in from the Brahms concert and is in a strange mood and reveals that she went with Simon to the concert, a fact that causes Roger anger and pain

Chapter eight
Simon writes to apologise and tells Paule that he is going to the country to work on a case and as a result will not be able to see her. Paule replies to the letter but you have to wait until the end of the chapter to find out she is giving him some encouragement

More tomorrow...