Tilda believes, and has had it deliberately ingrained into her since childhood, that if anybody legal *ever* finds out the family secret, they're all going to jail. Her father was at some pains to frighten her out of ever discussing the problem outside the family.
When your family are professional cons of one sort or another, the promise of lawyer/client confidentiality probably isn't all that convincing.
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Date: 2006-05-12 01:33 pm (UTC)When your family are professional cons of one sort or another, the promise of lawyer/client confidentiality probably isn't all that convincing.