He Hid Our Marriage for Two Years, So I Told the Whole Ballroom novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: The Ruling
The recess ended, and I went back to my seat.
Lachlan did not return to the stand.
My lawyer rose and asked for one thing.
"Your Honor, the petition rests on a signature made under a proxy the co-petitioner no longer holds, and on an allegation of unfitness that the petitioner's own witnesses have not supported. I ask that it be dismissed."
Rosamund's lawyer stood to object.
He had lost his radio voice somewhere between lunch and now.
"Your Honor, the existence of an active marriage changes the picture of the child's."
"Does it?" the judge said.
She took off her glasses.
"Counsel, I have read the exhibit. It tells me that Mr. and Mrs. Beaufain remain married, which is a fact neither of them chose to hide from this court. It does not tell me that this woman is unfit. It tells me the opposite."
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