Susie was left with the doctor and Carroll and Loder in the sitting room with the harsh overhead light.
Perhaps if I told about finding Mr. Person, it would make a difference, she thought. But she had no way of knowing whether it would be a favorable or a disastrous influence. Or who might profit, or who might suffer. She had a respect for the law, for truth and order, and discipline. But for the first time in her life she thought of the processes of the law not as an impersonal working of justice; but a hunt. Powerful, inexorable forces moving upon a terrified and helpless creature. If you see dogs after a rabbit, you don’t think about the damage rabbits do to the fields, she thought.
“Try this,” said the doctor. He was standing before her with a glass.
“What is it?” she asked.
“Water
