Un dilemme

In a richly detailed Parisian dining room of the late nineteenth century, two gentlemen—M. Lambois, a weary banker, and Le Ponsart, a meticulous notary—sit over a steaming pot of coffee, their conversation turning to a troubling inheritance. The recently deceased Jules left a modest fortune, but the law splits it between distant relatives, while a young woman, presented as a humble maid, occupies the house under suspicious circumstances.

Their discourse quickly becomes a moral puzzle: how to remove the woman without causing scandal or incurring heavy costs, and whether a hidden will might reshape the distribution. As the men weigh legal loopholes against personal conscience, the narrative weaves legal jargon, social pretension, and the quiet desperation of those bound by duty. Listeners will be drawn into the claustrophobic tension of a single evening, where each witty exchange hints at deeper secrets waiting to surface.