“I haven’t seen him for months, and I couldn’t care less if it was years.”

Simon tasted his brandy again, even more carefully.

“Then — are you relying on some subtle Oriental poison, straight from the pharmacopoeia of Sherlock Holmes?”

“No.”

“This gets even more interesting. In Montreal—”

“In Montreal, I tried to pull a fast one on you.”

“To be exact, you set me up to pull a job for you, and I was damn nearly the sucker who fell for it.”

“Only instead of that you made a sucker out of me.”

“And now all of a sudden I’m forgiven?”

She shrugged.