Millicent glanced at the phone. “And now, if it’s okay with you, I’ve got to get ready to go to church.”
“So she was actually going to church,” said Miles in the tone of someone having the last word on the matter. They were in Miles’s car again and heading away.
Myrtle was barely paying attention. “Didn’t you find that whole thing rather odd, Miles?”
“Odd that she’s going to church?”
“For heaven’s sake, give up on your obsession with church for a second,” said Myrtle. “I mean the fact that Millicent was shadowing Victor to figure out how he ran his business.”
“Isn’t that the way it’s been done for hundreds of years? Apprenticeships and shadowing?”
Myrtle said, “Yes, but only officially. From what Millicent told us, she was just following Victor around. He most likely didn’t want h
