“Valerie. I’m a working man. And we have had all this out before. I would advise you to stop at once. Think hard about what you are saying and the effect it might have on Robert seeing us quarrel. And we’ll become food for neighbourhood gossip.”
“Robert’s over the other side of the room wallowing in that ginger brew. And I don’t need to think hard. I know what I am saying. I feel ashamed at your behaviour. The officer asked us to give him some kind of family welcome. Just to get him over a bad patch. And for no other reason but that you were jealous you threw him out. It also shows a complete lack of trust on your part. A lack of trust in me.”
“I did not throw him out. And I was not jealous. I merely pointed out that he had not behaved in a seemly way.”
“What does that mean? Seemly what
