“I’ll say you’re not. The way you’re acting, a person would think you were breaking a murder case.”

I could have bitten my tongue off as soon as I’d said it. The look on his face told me everything I needed to know. “How did you know there’d been a murder, Lam?”

“Has there?”

“That’s what you said.”

“Don’t be silly. I told you you were going through as much agony as though there had been a murder.”

“That isn’t exactly what you said.”

“The hell it isn’t.”

“You know it isn’t.”

“I know it is. I was merely using a figure of speech anyway. But that’s no sign you can’t tell me.”

“We’ll talk about something else until we get to Las Vegas.”