Chapter 104

• Schwartz had seen Lucien evolve. Having been born to a prostitute, he had been heartless and cold.
• He had been a brutal man, incapable of loving.
• His sexual needs were insatiable. He had had a reputation for sleeping with more women than it was considered humanly possible, joked men in private, envious and admiringly. Schwartz himself knew that the core of his friend’s heart was empty. He kept aloof from relationships. He never surrendered completely to any woman.