She must not let him regain his equilibrium. Even his awareness of the investigation, of her interest, though she would have preferred it otherwise, is an advantage of sorts. It is evidence of leakage, of his failure to suppress Hunter, and it will jostle him. She has never been a proponent of the muscular school of detection much favoured in Hollywood, in which the detective’s primary strategy is to blunder around breaking things until the criminal attempts to put her out of his misery. Still, if it works, she will not complain at having stumbled on to her suspect’s toes.