“Entirely. I have one once in a while, all alone.”

“What did you go for?”

“You don’t need to answer, my dear,” Arnold told her.

She ignored him. “They told me what had happened at the conference, and I was mad. I thought it was a holdup — but I wasn’t going to tell Alberto that. I thought I could talk him out of it.”

“You went to appeal to him for old times’ sake?”

She looked pleased. “You have the nicest way of putting things! Imagine a girl my age having old times!”

“I’m glad you like my diction, Miss James.” Wolfe was furious. “Anyhow, you went. Arriving at a quarter past six?”

“Just about, yes.”

“Did you see Mion?”

“No.”