“You were sent by Father Albert?” Dane Malbry had started our meeting.
“Yes,” I nodded.
He seemed to realize the delicacy of the matter I wished to discuss and didn’t press me right away.
“And he informed you of my specialty?”
“Not exactly.”
“Oh? What did he say?”
I fidgeted a bit nervously. “I mentioned that I was troubled by … by uh, s****l matters and he immediately referred me to you. I sort of wonder why he did that.”
Mr. Malbry smiled. “Because that is my specialty, s****l matters. I feel it my duty to set right the confusion that often appears in my client’s mind. And I take it you’re fraught with confusion?”
“Yes, I surely am,” I found myself saying. He was both astute and mesmerizing.
“Why don’t you begin at the beginning?” It was here he first gave me a glimmer of his
