The Inspector was very uncomfortable. “Why … I was going to tell you about that. A little later.”
“You were? Oscar Piper, you wanted to demonstrate your masculine superiority, that’s all. You thought I was getting too sure of myself after my luck in the last case we did together, and so you handed yourself a handicap. You held back some evidence so that I wouldn’t beat you too badly!”
“But Hildegarde …”
“Yes, and you got up early this morning to try and beat me to a few facts over here, didn’t you?”
“But Hildegarde, you did the same thing.”
Snicker.
Their relationship is definitely on the rocks, but I have hope.