After these banal remarks, in accordance with his usual way, he began brusquely:
"You have made up your mind?"
"To what?" she asked, although she had understood.
"To a separation from Albert."
She seemed to be thunderstruck.
"Oh! why not after all that has happened!"
The lawyer at once expressed his point of view:
"A man like him is not to be judged by one action, but by his entire life."
She noticed that he did not speak of pardon, but of justice, and she mechanically repeated in her surprise.
"His whole life?"