“What about him?”
“He’s carrying water on both shoulders.”
“Now you listen to me, Donald Lam. We aren’t conducting a society to purify the motives of our clients. We’re running a detective agency. We’re trying to make money out of it. If a client comes to me and says he wants to find someone, and puts up the money, it’s the money that really does the talking.”
“So I gathered.”
“And that’s business.”
“Perhaps.”
“Oh, I know it isn’t your way. You go around charging windmills. You think that just because we’re running a detective agency, we’re supposed to be knights of the Round Table. You find damsels in distress and fall for them, and they fall for you, and—”
“But I’m still worried about Hale.”
“So am I. I’m afraid he’s not going to pay us our bonus.”
“Didn’t you put the agreement in writing?”