“That is all.”
“Ask it, Detective Carter.”
Nick’s voice fell a little lower, and became more impressive.
“I wish to know what you would have said to me, Madame Victoria, if I had called to consult you professionally.”
The smile still lingered about the woman’s red lips, and her eyes met his without flinching.
“I should have said, Detective Carter, what my first impression impelled me to say, yet which I decided to repress.”
“What was that?”
“I should have told you that I felt, when you entered, as if I were meeting a person who had recently called here.”
“Did you feel so?”