On the other hand, James felt like he’d been thrown into a strange parallel universe. He’d never heard his boss speaking like that to a possible witness and he didn’t understand what had triggered that behaviour.
McNamara was marginally rude only if he’d had the certitude he was talking to the person he was going to arrest. As far as James knew, Miss McNeil wasn’t a suspect in their inquiry.
He couldn’t fathom her connection with the case. As far as he knew, she was only one of the residents of Nightingale Street. Consequently, he couldn’t perceive a reason for McNamara’s behaviour. And even after he rationalised all that, he felt much more confused than he’d been in the beginning.
Mrs Stevens had her own opinion about what was going on between the two of them. She never kept her though
