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"Did you mention that to the police?"

"I don't think so" He lowered his eyes, lit another cigarette "I'ht at the ti odd foods, that sort of thing Pregnant wos" His eyes rose to meet mine "Besides, I didn't want to think about it Just a day or two before the et a police lock for the door You know those locks with a steel bar braced against the door so it can't be forced?"

I nodded

"Well, we didn't get a lock like that Not that it would have made any difference because the door wasn't forced I wondered why she would let anyone in, as nervous as she was, but it was daytime, after all, and people aren't as suspicious in the daytias coler operated?"

"I think it was so like that"

"But if it was actually someone she knew-"

"There are some questions I have to ask"

"Sure"

"Is it possible your as involved with anyone?"

"Involved with-you "

"She was pregnant," he said, as if that answered the question When I didn't say anything he said, "We were very happy together I' anyone"

"Did she often have visitors when you were out?"

"She ht have had a friend over I didn't check up on her We trusted each other"

"She left her job early that day"

"She did that so relationship with the woman she worked for"

"You said you trusted each other Did she trust you?"

"What are you driving at?"

"Did she ever accuse you of having affairs with other wo to? Oh, I bet I knohere this is couments that soet odd ideas when they're pregnant Like food cravings Barbie got it into her head that I was h tene out for the crap they throw off the roof at you, and she was accusingit on with all of those danancy neurosis I'm not Mr Irresistible in the first place, and I was so turned off by what I saw in those hovels that I had trouble perfor turned on while I was on the job The hell, you were a cop, I don't have to tell you the kind of thing I saw every day"

"So you weren't having an affair?"

"Didn't I just tell you that?"

"And you weren't rohborhood, for exanored the question "You reer Is that right?"

"A little less than three years"

"When did you meet your present wife?"

"About a year before I married her Maybe , and we had a June wedding"

"How did you h we didn't pay any attention to each other at the time, and then a friend of mine had both of us over for dinner, and-" He broke off abruptly "She wasn't one ofat And she never lived in Brooklyn, either Jesus, I'er-"

"I'm a suspect, aren't I? Jesus, how could I sit here and not have it occur to me? I'm a suspect, for Christ's sake"