The pick remained firmly grasped in her hand. "So I gathered, by your picking of the lock. What possible interest could a skeleton detective have in an empty suite?" There was no hostility in her tone; rather an underlying amusement. His not quite telling the full story was something she had anticipated after their first conversation.

She was also genuinely curious about his motives. Skulduggery had a suite of his own, so any robbery of vacant ones did not make sense.