"Relax," she said, "you aren’t rid of me that easily. I’m supposed to go home and work through the FBI to get the Brits on board, which would be slow as molasses even if it worked. The guy I’ve got the really serious hard-on for, though, he’d be gone anyway." Thinking about this person, Milgrim noticed, made her eyes look beady, and that brought back his initial reaction to her in Covent Garden. "Recruiting a U.S. citizen in the U.K. is okay," she said, "but interacting with non-U.S. citizens, in furtherance of a criminal investigation or a national security matter? Not so much."