“Did you tell them?”
“Indeed I did not.”
“Was it hard to hold out?”
“Not so bad. I told them that was a professional confidence. I might have had some trouble if it hadn’t been that they discovered you’d gone to Los Angeles. That gave them all they needed to work on. They said they were going to catch the train by plane and bring you back.”
“How late did they keep you up?”
“Most of the whole blessed night.”
“Didn’t they ever tumble to Whitewell?”
“After a while.”
“How?”
“Snooping around.”