Have you noticed that?

They check with her first.”

He had noticed it.

That was the thing.

He had noticed it and thought nothing of it, and now he had a frame to put around it, and the frame changed the picture entirely.

This is how suspicion works in a certain kind of man.

Chadworth Prescott had spent thirty years in an industry where the person smiling at you across the table is frequently trying to take something from you, and he had survived by assuming the worst and being pleasantly surprised.

That instinct had built him a fortune.