Chapter 196

Several more weeks passed since the events, long weeks in which the two of them immersed themselves in work, to momentarily forget their painful sorrows, their loveless state, their sadness, one that was consuming them and slowly destroying their lives. The Carson trial, of course, became public knowledge, and since the Barclays were a well-known family internationally, the news was on the front pages of the most important and influential magazines and newspapers in the country and the world for several days."