Eva's Sins.

XLII

„There's a solution for each problem, as the success lies in details"

  Going down the stairs of the theater, after attending a play that night, Sophie looked around and saw Beatrice Evans in the lobby talking to Ms. Fitton and Ms. Amiral. She grimaced unsatisfied because seeing the three women together was something unpleasant to her, knowing all the gossip and all the bad things these three ladies did to her all these months since Brian visited Ms. Amiral and asked her to make hard life for Sophie. At least this is what Sophie thought because what Brian really asked Ms. Amiral was totally the opposite but his wife, being against him, believed that he wants her dead and because of this she was accusing him now of all the bad things that happened to her.

  There were only a few stairs more of going down when Sophie finally saw Marianne talking to Luis, in a far corner of the lobby and from Marianne's gestures she understood that the woman was really furious and because of this she was claiming something to her husband, even if their voices weren't heard.

  Sophie stared at the two spouses for a few moments, trying to figure out the reason for their argument, but she couldn't find it so she finally decided to go out of the theater and wait for Marianne outside. But when she was at the bottom of the stairs her glance stopped on Anne and Sophie was so amazed to see the girl wearing an elegant dress, a beautiful hairstyle, and expensive jewelry on the neck and wrists.

  The girl seemed to wait for somebody while standing next to the exiting door. Then, when Sophie looked at Marianne for a moment, she could see an uncontrolled gesture of her pointing toward the place where Anne was waiting as if Marianne was reproaching her husband about the girl. „It can't be," Sophie whispered. „Even if he's a womanizer and a shameless person, Luis couldn't have brought her mistress to the theater, knowing that his wife can be here too and more than that - to show so openly the world that he has a new woman in his life."

  She had been awakened from her daydream when Ms. Fitton approached her and, stepping in front of her, she didn't let Sophie pass when she decided to walk away without talking with her enemy.

  „It seems that Christine Bircham is really a Cupid, especially when it's related to other women's husbands," Ms. Fitton said, emphasizing the words and trying to show Sophie how much she hates her.

  To Ms. Fitton's surprise, who was expecting a backlash from Sophie, the woman smiled. „I don't think that you can judge another woman for being someone's mistress when you also use to spend some nights in the arms of others'husbands."

  Ms. Fitton disliked Sophie's commentary and even if she wanted so badly to slap Sophie, she decided that it won't be right to do this there. „At least I never forgot about my husband and, even if I prefer from time to time to bring new men in my bed, I still find time for my husband too, trying this way to remember him that he still has a wife home. What I can't say about others."

  „Some wives respect themselves much more than the rest and they prefer not to share the same man with his mistress. It's about ethics and education."

  „Then ... I don't understand why you later complain when your husbands show up in public with their mistresses who seem to have even more influence on them than you have," and, with reproach in her glance, she first looked at Marianne and later at Anne, who looked at them too as if she felt that they were talking about her. „I won't even be surprised if soon we find out that mister Chesterman will have soon an heir, of course, out of the marriage."

  „And ... since when this would be a major social problem?"

  „Of course, this will be, because we all know that Mister Chesterman's firstborn and the daughter who could have inherited his fortune is missing for so many years already and this is only thanks to her mother's madness. Some bad-mouthing people even say that Marianne did this to punish her womanizer husband," and Ms. Fitton winked to Sophie, trying to make her lose control.