“I guess I wasn’t very courteous down there at the loft today. I never am very polite when I’m working with the birds. You see, it makes them nervous to have strangers around.”
I nodded sympathetically. “Me too. By the way, I forgot to ask, how’s Dusky Diana coming along?”
“Oh, she’s much better. She’ll be all right.” He squinted at me. “I suppose Miss Amory told you about her?”
“Yeah, she told me a lot of interesting things.”
He shifted in his chair. Then he cleared his throat. “You were with her all evening, weren’t you?”
“Sure, I stuck around.”
“I saw you when you came back. When you brought her home. From my window.”
“Did you? It was pretty late.”
“I know it was. But I — You see, I was worried about her. I am worried about her. I think she’s in some kind of trouble or something, and I wondered if that was why she went to see that Lily Rowan.”
“You might ask her.”