‘He couldn’t respond to more specific questions than these, you have to believe me’.
‘These couriers, of course, are usually schooled in only the essentials as to what they are carrying for them not to provide too much information to the police if caught. These organisations are built as pyramids with their apex unreachable and the couriers don’t know who is on the next step above them’.
‘To put it in few words, he was in a hurry to conclude the deal, but I was hesitant, being unconvinced’.
‘Because of the exorbitant price?’
‘Not just that. I wanted to know more about it by asking John his opinion as a physician’.
‘Who’s John? Ah, Doctor Polidori, of course. Just one more question: did it seem to you that Marais was afeared of someone or something?’
‘He indeed behaved oddly
