“Inspector Marlowe had sounded just like my father. “This business is not for the female temperament,” he had said – but Jackaby had not hesitated to point me toward the worst of it and ask for my opinions. It made me inexplicably excited that I would be working with this mad detective again. Looking back, I suppose I ought to have been less afraid of being left safely behind, and more afraid of the looming precipice ahead. I.”
