“You were Jed’s woman?”
“What do you mean?”
“You know what I mean.”
“Why, the idea of saying things like that to me!”
“You were, weren’t you?”
She met my eyes, then glanced away and didn’t say anything.
“You were, weren’t you?”
She waited a moment, then said, “Yes,” in a voice that was almost a whisper.
“All right, let’s go on from there. When the officers came up to your apartment tonight and pounded on the door and told you they were officers, and told you to open up, you were frightened stiff, weren’t you?”
“Of course I was. Anyone would have been under those circumstances.”