“Why — I don’t understand what you’re getting at.”

“Neither do I,” Bertha said. “I just wanted to know, that’s all.”

“What difference does it make?”

“It might make a lot. Do you go to one shop regularly?”

“Yes.”

“Where?”

Belder hesitated for a moment, then said, “It’s the Terminal Tonsorial Parlour near the Pacific Greyhound bus station.”

“Go there regularly?”

“Yes.”

“Been going there quite a long while?”