She was sharp. I could see the beauty of that. She was showing me how to do it. You thought about the reward, first; when you got used to that you could let your ideas grow a little. You didn't have to jump in cold. You waded in.

The narrator reflects on how Diana is drawing him into a criminal scheme by starting with the respectable idea of a reward.

— A Touch of Death (Charles Williams, 1953)


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