His shoulder's sagged, but he nodded just the same. He knew Antoine would ask for something like this but he had hoped, just a little, that it would have been a face to face meeting so Mercedes might at least have a chance to see him again. After all, the man knew nothing of what had happened outside his sick room that night. The letter would come from out of the blue. He would believe it.
And that was the right thing to do, Aimé chastised himself, he could not keep putting Mercedes first when his family still needed him.