<div style="text-align: justify;">The man in the reception counter had no idea what he had just done. Had he even dreamed of what Rich was planing, and the man would have never told him the number of Shane’s room. <br/><br/>When Rich left, the man took his mind of the conversation and went back to work, not imagining the events that would happen in the hotel.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">*******************************</div><br/>Colette smiled at Paul’s words. ~“Thank you”~, she replied, when he said that he would have defended her even if he knew what would have happened. <br/><br/>When he started trying to remember the people whose lives Rich had ruined, Colette listened in silence. She nodded when Paul said that it would be better if he made a list.<br/><br/>~“It is a good idea”~, she agreed. ~“After that, I think the next step would be to try and remember whether or not one of those young women has any relatives in French”~, Colette suggested, even though she wasn’t sure about how they could go about doing this.<br/><br/>While Paul worked on his list, Colette would keep silent, sitting on the edge of his bed and considering what kind of monster the American agent could be, for Paul to know of so many people he had hurt in the time he had known the man and worked with him.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">*******************************</div><br/>Marie smiled back at Shane when he said his father had told him that women had their own language. “Your father sounds like an intelligent man”, she replied, in the kind intonation she always used with Shane. <br/><br/>When Shane told her to remind him never to doubt her judgement, Marie smiled. “Oh, I will, dear”, she replied, in a joking intonation. Of course, she was actually taking that very seriously, but saying it as a joke would definitely be better to get Shane to relax. “Didn’t your father tell you that a woman is always right?”, Marie completed, now really joking. “It would do a world of good to learn this while you are still young”.</div>