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SHE left Tim puzzled, and yet not completely puzzled. She did not know, then; it was impossible that she should.
He had had her record from Scotland Yard. She had never been convicted, but she had been on the verge of conviction, had even faced an Old Bailey judge ten years before, and had escaped a verdict of guilty through the sheer sentimentality of an Old Bailey jury -- and sentimentality in an Old Bailey jury is the rarest of all qualities.