CHAPTER 11Agents Henry and Gold buried themselves in the ordeal of Marie Havinga until early evening, when the young woman announced a previous engagement with her boyfriend.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier, Agent Gold? I would have let you go. I'm not that much of a hardass."
"Business before pleasure," she said simply. As soon as she said this, it occurred to her that she might have hurt her mentor's feelings, as if to say her time with Henry was not pleasurable. But she also did not want him to think she liked staying late with him. Damn s****l politics, she thought. In an attempt to redeem herself, she added, "Interesting business, anyway." Oh s**t, I didn't mean that, either, she thought. Never mind, never mind. "See you tomorrow, Bill," she called finally with a wave, hastening to
