"Yet you admit you belong to a subversive group?"
"I admit nothing," she said shortly.
"But you do. I know you do. You said as much to me, when you were
prevented from reviving your father."
She shrugged.
I went on: "Why did you call me at the office, Rena? Was it to get me
to help you work against the Company?"
She looked at me for a long moment. Then she said: "It was. And would
you like to know why I picked you?"
"Well, I suppose--"
"Don't suppose, Tom." Her nostrils were white. She said coldly: "You
seemed like a very good bet, as far as we could tell. I will tell you
something you don't know. There is a memorandum regarding you in the
office of the Chief of Expediters in Naples. I do not choose to tell
you how I know of it, but even your Mr. Gogarty doesn't know it exists.
It is private and secret, and it says of you, 'Loyalty doubtful.
Believed in contact with underground movement. Keep under close but
secret surveillance'."
* * * * *
That one rocked me, I admit. "But that's all wrong!" I finally burst
out. "I admit I went through a bad time after Marianna died, but--"