"I hope so, too." It just pops out of her. Does she? Saying it has made her consider it. Well, yes: if positions were reversed and Jonathan Jones—her Jones, the dog-walker, not this new Jones with a secret conference room—if he were, for example, in danger of assassination by agents of an overseas criminal syndicate, she might take such steps to bring him to a safe haven. It is just possible he might provide her with a suitable explanation for his conduct. In that event, of course, she would review her sense of betrayal. She might even approve, and her approval might take a very definite and physical form, as it did in his house. If—