“You think he isn’t?”

“I don’t know.

I’d rather you ask for information than try to read his phone habits.”

I almost apologized for being difficult.

Marjorie stopped me when I said so.

“You can understand that this is difficult for him without making the truth easier for him to avoid.”

Before the week was over, she asked me to bring the venue papers to her office.

With my authorization, she had requested the correspondence relating to our shared contract and payment history.