immature. If he were punished now, for something that he had never meant to happen, what point would be served by that? One more life would be marred, and the world, in this case, would not be a more just place for it.
“Yes, I believe you,” said Isabel. She paused. The decision was really quite simple, and she did not need to be a moral T H E S U N D A Y P H I L O S O P H Y C L U B
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philosopher to take it. “And that’s the end of the matter. It was an accident. You’re sorry about it. We can leave it at that.”
She looked at him, and saw that he was in tears. So she reached out and took his hand, which she held until they were ready to walk back up the path.
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phe-nomenon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. This novel is the first of a new series, The Sunday Philosophy Club. He spent his childhood in Zimbabwe and has worked in Botswana and Swaziland. He lives in Scotland, where he is a professor of med-ical law at Edinburgh University.
Document Outline
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty -four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
About the Author
