Jerry looked down and then suddenly up at me. “Seen Dot recently, Steve?”

I nodded.

“She still thinks it was me?”

I had to nod again.

“You’ve seen her since—” his voice hardened and he finished, “the Scofield bump off?”

“Yes.”

“That was me, too?”

“She thinks, you see,” I said, “you’re no longer yourself.”

“Kind of her,” said he. “Very. Well, I’d gathered as much from the papers. I don’t blame her. Where were we?”

“He’d got the necklace.”