THE POLICE DETECTIVE, Robbins, cared very little for Snail once he learned that she had no parents looking for her, but fortunately, he did not seem any more interested in me and my history. Theodora Grey had introduced me to him as Morgan Grey, her husband’s cousin, and that seemed to be enough for him. He did not ask for my parents’ names, or where I lived when I was not staying with Cousin Teddy and… I had never heard her husband’s name, so I skirted around the necessity of discussing him.
I told Detective Robbins that I had been playing with the street children for want of anyone else near my own age. He did not question that a person sixteen years old might still be interested in play. I told him that we had gone rather far afield and were returning to the neighbourhood when the wago
