Madame Zed catches Eva, but her outrage turns to affection and she takes Eva under her wing and introduces her to her assistant, Valmont.Įva also meets a young woman named Miss Waverly. One day Eva is cleaning perfumer Madame Zed’s room and pauses to smell one of her perfume bottles. Lambert, a glamorous gambler who treats her kindly and plays cards with her. In 1927, Eva d’Orsey is fourteen years old and working as a maid in an expensive hotel in New York City. She goes to the shop and meets Madame Zed, who admits to knowing Eva well and offers to tell Grace the story. Grace also finds a business card for a perfume shop. While searching the apartment, Grace discovers that Eva was a wealthy man’s mistress the apartment was his gift to her. He pushes her to sell the apartment so he can simply give her a sizable inheritance, but Grace demands to see the apartment so she can investigate who Eva was. However, Tissot is businesslike and seems only interested in squaring everything away quickly. He is handsome, charming, and French, and Grace is smitten. In Paris, Grace is met by Eva’s lawyer, Monsieur Tissot. She returns to the letter she received and decides to travel to Paris to straighten out what must be a terrible mistake. Grace is upset, certain that her inability to give Roger children is part of the problem. Grace and Roger attend a party, and Grace observes her husband clearly having an affair with a beautiful society woman.
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