As she walked ahead of him, Roxanne could not help but wonder what it was that had made him sound so aggressive towards her. She raised her left arm and took a short glance at her leather wristwatch. Her break had only stolen ten minutes of her working hours. Surely, those ten minutes could not be enough to make him mad.

But then, it was Lancelot, she thought. And everything made Lancelot Dankworth mad.

Behind her, Lancelot's facial features has still not relaxed from the ...