“All right,” Barnaby said finally.

“I’ll set it up.

But I’d like something on the record, sir, if you don’t mind.”

“Go ahead.”

“In eleven years I’ve never known that woman to take so much as a bottle of water home.

And I check.

That’s my job.”

“Noted,” Chadworth said, and hung up, and did not think about it again for four hours, and would think about it for the rest of his life.