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Quote #10
She was aware that her relations with Gersbach offered grounds for a custody suit and she would therefore make the most of his present weakness—his idiocy. (8.273)
Madeleine knows that her affair with Val has weakened her case in her divorce with Herzog, which is why she'll use any opportunity that comes up (like Herzog's car accident) to gain more leverage over him. For her, marriage might be love; but divorce is war.