He inserted the filter, pressed a button and turned to face her. "Then your headaches must be bad," he said, spooning coffee into a paper filter. I take one occasionally, but you can only get them on prescription. He'd only asked to make a change from saying yes or no. "Would you like an aspirin? I think we've got some here." He oughtn't to give her anything even as harmless as aspirin - she could say he'd fed her something that had impaired her will. It would have been important to know that. The chief wasn't giving her time to reflect on how, when and under what circumstances the tune on the cassette could have found its way into her head. " In her head something was winding back. A stranger, but his wife had had that tape! "I'll wind it on a bit. That was the truth, the unadulterated truth. It didn't escape him that her voice was swimming in a puddle of despair. "Do you know what Georg Frankenberg's profession was?" They tell you some nonsense and you have to believe it because you can't prove the opposite." After a few moments she said: "I wouldn't go that far. Out of the corner of his eye lie saw her shrug. Common assault, eh? Aloud he said: "Have you got something against doctors?"
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