THE WOMAN WHO HAD SEEN Susie Sutherland, a Mrs Adams, seemed a sensible woman. But she looked as astonished as Rafferty, when Llewellyn reappeared in one of the ground floor interview rooms with the tea he’d been sent off to get. For his sergeant returned with a bone china tea service on a tray, complete with a cosy-covered teapot. And chocolate biscuits. It seemed Llewellyn considered this witness deserved star treatment. Somehow, Llewellyn must have persuaded the Super’s secretary to lend him the Super’s fine bone china tea-set that he kept for very special visitors. The three of them sat around the table with the pink and white bone china like something out of a Vicar’s tea party
Rafferty half expected someone to come through the door and call ‘Anyone for tennis?’ But when no one did,
