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at the city's fertilization clinic, Claire is a young, short-haired
brunette woman who is fully involved in her work. She is the one who
welcomes Laura Asher, who came to the clinic to be inseminated without
her husband's knowledge. While naturally talking with Laura, Claire
tries to make her answer the different questions to complete her file.
Laura, who knows to she is an important woman in the city society, plays
subtlety to avoid giving clear and precise answers. The first meeting
between the two women is most pleasant.
Their
next meetings, result of chance, will highlight the fragile and complex
character of Laura's psyche. The next two times, Claire crosses Laura's
road (both times with Mack Blake) at the Orient Express.
If
the first time, their words are most banal, although Laura explains that
they met at her psychiatrist; the second time, Claire tells Laura of the
immense joy that inhabits her. Indeed Claire just found out she is
pregnant. Mack listens with a discreet ear to Claire's last words to
Laura - she assures her that she will experience the same joy, when she
will be pregnant too. Mack then discovers Laura's dark secret : she is
not pregnant, as she pretends to be.
Portrait written
for this site by Lilian
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