“Get it out of your head once and for all,” she said, “that you can frighten me, and I’m not your slave. I’m living my own life. Ours is a business partnership, and that’s all.”
“Oh, yeah?”
“You heard me.”
He swung back to me. “I want to know some more about this client of yours.”
“You can ask Bertha Cool about that. She’s at the Sal Sagev Hotel.”
“That client here in town right now?”
“You’ll have to ask her about that.”
“I think,” he said, “I’m going to take quite an interest in that client of yours.”
“I wouldn’t,” I told him, “not after what Kleinsmidt told me about you.”
“Who’s Kleinsmidt?”