Chapter 27“Lucky thing for us your professor friend turning up like that, Sally girl,” said Winston as he drove towards Maiden's Farm, where they would continue the search in a different area to the day before.
“To be honest, I really can't get over him just turning up out of the blue,” she replied. “I would never have thought of Lucius Doberman as the impetuous or impulsive type.”
“Maybe he still fancies you,” Cutler volunteered.
“Oh, I doubt that, Joe. He might have done at one time, but I made it plain that I wasn't interested, and he's enough of a gentleman to take no to mean no. I really think he genuinely believes there's something sinister behind all this and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he and Sir Marcus had a theory already, but that they daren't share it with us yet.”
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