“Larry, what on God’s earth were you doing in that drawer?”
“Looking for a paper she was gonna type for me in December.”
“I don’t believe that!” she said. “That is not the first place you’d look for a thing like that.”
“As a matter of fact, I checked her desk first.”
“According to Bill, that’s the only place you looked.”
“I coulda looked in the desk before I ran into Bill.”
“Technically yes, but I know you’re lying, Larry.”
“Why would I lie?”
“I don’t know, but from now on you have to be truthful about everything related to Violet. You need to tell the cops everything, too. Why don’t you offer to take a lie detector test? Surely that would get them off your back.”
“Look, Dana, I’ll level with you. I told the cops that Violet’s door was unlocked when I got there, but actually I bro
