Summary

In Chapter 8, “Schooled,” Noah and Michael awake the next day and meet with Coco, a woman whom Noah had known when they were both young. Noah’s family had hired Coco’s mother to clean their house regularly. Coco recalls that, shortly before the end of the war, Margot was forcibly brought into the Hotel Excelsior by Nazis, apparently for some type of punishment, although Margot never spoke to anyone about what had happened. Later, Noah and Michael confer about this new information. They realize that she was likely tortured by the Nazis for information, and that she may have even given them information, which might explain why she never spoke about her participation in the Resistance to anyone throughout the rest of her life. Fortunately, her torture occurred close enough to the time of the Nazis being driven out of France that even...