“If you were travelling around, going here and there, wherever you wanted to go, it would cause us a lot of trouble to keep track of you; but if you stayed in one place, it wouldn’t be at all difficult.”
“You mean my office?”
“Or mine.”
“Just what do you mean?”
“Well, I thought that if you stayed here for a while it might simplify matters.”
“You can’t hold me in custody that way.”
“Certainly not,” Sellers said. “I would be the first one to admit that, Mrs. Cool.”
“Well?” she said triumphantly.
“Just a moment,” he cautioned as she started to get up out of the chair. “I can’t hold you on that, but I certainly can hold you on breaking into that house tonight. That’s a felony.”
“But I didn’t take anything.”