"Yes. I can see you would feel quite unclean if you ever became contaminated with an emotion." "It's a job. Like pumping gas, or being vice-president of a bank. If I want to be emotional, I do it on my own time."

A cutting exchange about the cold-blooded nature of the insurance investigator's work.

— Mrs. Butler, John Barton in A Touch of Death (Charles Williams, 1953)


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