“The library says they sent you. What do you want?”
Couldn’t she have asked them? Ah, maybe she did. Slick operator, this one. Nobody was catching her unawares.
“I’m checking on the surveillance equipment you checked out. It’s overdue.”
“Well, as I told you young man, they haven’t come yet.”
At this point, I expected a blue police box to land in the yard so David Tennant could take me somewhere, which made even less sense than this. After two heartbeats, I gave up on the Tenth Doctor and returned to Ms. or Mrs. Millhone.
“Who hasn’t come yet?” I almost added “ma’am” but fewer words felt safer.
“The vandals who’ve been stealing my grapes.”
She was now perilously close to making sense.
“You borrowed the equipment to watch for vandals stealing your grapes.”
“Certainly. Isn’t that what it’s for?”