Noah had promised Raphael he would consider whether Hal might now return to London. Holy God, he was tempted. But however small the risk might be now to Sam, he also knew how much safer Hal would be there with him than pursuing dangerous scum around Bankside. Hal would be incensed if he knew he had taken that into consideration.
Raphael had been so enraged at Susannah’s part in their action to catch Crabbe, he had thought it best not to tell him it had been her own scheme. He had tried to explain how her feelings of responsibility for Hal’s absence brought her a sense of obligation to help, though he would brook none of it. That the man who had come after Sam in Florence had been York’s absolved her of blame for it, but would change nothing as far as she was concerned, he felt certain. Th
