“Think about it for a second before you say anything stupid.

Who does a man like that believe.

The woman he’s marrying, or the girl who does the laundry?”

In the control room, Barnaby said, very quietly: “That’s the one, sir.”

“What?”

“That right there.

What she just said, with the phone in her hand — that’s not temper.

Temper’s not a crime.