![]() ![]() For his part, John has no choice but to take the Frenchman's place-as master of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a large and embittered family, and keeper of too many secrets. His French companion is gone, having stolen his identity. It is not until he awakes the next day that John, the Englishman, realizes that he may have spoken too much. ![]() Over the course of a long evening, they talk and drink. Two men-one English, the other French-meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. ![]() "Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. ![]()
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