"You know," Joe said, holding a beer in his hand, in the pub we went to after the talk. "You should be careful about Prof. Bedwen. He's not a man you should anger. I've heard things about him. He doesn't take insults to his reputation lightly."
"Don't we all?" A high-status man who cares about his position is not really surprising. Many of the professors in the university were known to be vindictive when their professional reputation was at stake. It's not something I wasn't used to.
"No, it's not like that." Joe drank his entire glass and put it on the sticky table I'd been avoiding touching all evening. "In his case, they say he goes beyond the reasonable. That he breaks the law. There are even stories about his family…"
I perked up, suddenly interested. Was this the reason why mother
