“You were worried about your brother, weren’t you?”

“No more so than I have been on other occasions.”

“You knew he’d gone out to get drunk?”

“Yes. I surmised that.”

“Let me ask you this,” Larry Sampson said. “Do you remember doing any shoplifting?”

She hesitated a moment, then said, “Yes.”

“You do?”

“Yes.”

“Where? When?”

“Yesterday afternoon, or rather yesterday noon, just before I met Mr. Mason.”