"Changed?"
"Yesterday you advocated that I hire a detective with telepathy and a sense of perception."
"We discussed it on the way home," said Florence.
"Superman?" I asked.
"No, this extra-sensory business," said Florence.
Mr. Wood inquired, "Are you interested in parapsychology, Captain Schnell?"
"I've been interested in the subject for a good many years," I answered.
"Would the public accept it, I wonder," he mused.
Mrs. Wood said, "A lot of people read psychic books."
Mr. Wood said plaintively, "I don't want to write psychic books. I want to write whodunits. But it would solve my problem, wouldn't it? My series would consist of crimes that would be perfect, except for the introduction of a Master of Psionics who tells the story in the first person singular, and who solves the crime by parapsychic power."