“This is the same Liv that Steve was talking about? He said she’d been ‘bugging’ Sally, or something?”
“That’s right. At least, that’s the only Liv I know in town, so it seems likely.”
Burton asked, “Did you ever see her around Sally? Approach her?”
I said slowly, “No, but I wasn’t really looking. The quiet section isn’t in full view. Like I said, Liv was in the library often, so she could easily have come in one day and headed back to that area to talk with Sally.”
“Besides the program, did you notice Liv at the library today?”
I thought about it. “No,” I said. “Not to check out any books, at least. But she could easily have been there.”
“What do you know about her?”
I said, “She’s in her mid-twenties and is a teaching assistant at Whitby College. She’s a scholarship student a
