Aux deux Colombes Page #2

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I'm not saying it's nothing.

Their warnings are

always the same.

" Someone betrayed you.

A danger threatens you. "

I swear I wouldn't care what

anyone like that said about me.

My darling it was nothing

concerning you.

Oh no?

The same as it wasn't

a threat or a betrayal.

What was it about?

A surprise.

"A surprise."

"You're going to get

a huge surprise."

That's stupid.

"A surprise"?

- Show it to me.

- What?

- That letter.

- I don't have any.

- No letter?

- It was a 'phone call.

- Who from?

- I told you it was anonymous.

- Who?

- "Who...who..." Luckily I'm polite.

The person who called

didn't give a name.

- You didn't ask?

- No.

- You see!...

- I am just as absent-minded as you.

You don't have to ask someone their name

for them to speak to you.

She hung up straight away.

"SHE" hung up?

- It was a woman.

- Yes.

- Well, well.

- What about it?

Nothing.

I find it odd, that's all.

- It's more stupid.

- It's better than "stupid".

Do you often get phone calls

from women?

This is the first of its kind.

There's always a first time.

You didn't recognise her voice?

Couldn't tell.

But voices can be disguised,

like handwriting.

Would you know it again?

- What?

- The voice.

Can't say, darling.

Maybe.

It could have been disguised.

She rolled her "Rs".

But that doesn't prove

it was disguised.

That's not what I said.

- Plenty of people speak like that.

- Yes.

Russians.

Rumanians, Bulgarians.

And Burgundians.

But I didn't recognise the voice.

I wasn't familiar with it.

In theory it's possible.

But it's extraordinary

that a woman, who doesn't know you,

calls you.

- "Extraordinary."

- You admit it.

- I've just fixed it.

- What?

I was just telling myself

when you came in.

You didn't seem perturbed.

I was annoyed.

But I wanted to hide it from you.

- "Hide it"?

- Yes.

- Why?

- Oh, Marie-Thrse... Why?

I've been hiding things from you

that you don't like for 20 years.

Why should a surprise

be something I didn't like?

Because it came out of the blue

and because it could be a threat.

- But it's not a threat.

- That's what makes it all so curious.

- What?

- Us.

How a phone call affects us two.

If it had been a letter you say

you would have laughed it off,

because you thought

it implicated you.

But because it's a surprise for me,

you take it badly.

Very strange.

- Why?

- You're kidding me.

- Oh no.

- So much the better.

What's very strange, is that you said nothing to me.

- I told you.

- Not right away.

You didn't tell her

where to go.

- Didn't have a chance.

- What a pity.

- Why?

- She'll take advantage.

- To do what...?

- Phone you from time to time.

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