There was a long silence. "Rani, please don’t be offended, but we aren’t really sure how much we should tell you. We may be dealing with a string of related murders, and we haven’t yet had a chance to talk about last night among ourselves. There may be another murder soon and we’ll have to figure out what we can do. We’re still not sure who we can talk to. . . ." Geraint’s voice tapered off into an attempted apology for not trusting her enough to tell her more, but she was unabashed.