"Why, you're guarding me so closely, I'm not trying to steal Lissy Lock from you."
"If you go there, you'll find out. Lissy wouldn't give you a warm welcome, because in her heart, you and I are the same kind of despicable people."
Kai Piers thought about it: "If that's the case, you're even more despicable than me."
John Fame glanced at the clock, picked up a file and began reading, a pen in his distinctly boned hand: "If you have nothing else, you can leave."
"I have something else," said Kai Piers, turning serious, "John Fame, this morning, Aurora Dupont and Matteo Quirke have returned from Hokkaido."
John Fame was puzzled: "If Aurora is back, and if you want to see her, you could just make up an excuse to go to the Dupont's. Why... do you need to come to the Lema City mansion?"
"Going to the Dupont's... my intentions would be too obvious, and it's inconvenient when others are there."
"Why would it be inconvenient for anything you want to do?"
