'How do you know?' asked Logan.
'Little things,' said Tam. 'Somebody heard them
shouting at each other one night. A few weeks
later she went on holiday without him. She
stopped going to the restaurant so often. In the
old days they were very close. But for the last
year or two it was unusual to see them together.'
'Do you think she had a lover? Or did he?' asked
Logan.
'Ah! Now that's the question.'
'Come on, Tam! What's the answer?' laughed
Logan. 'And it doesn't cost another drink.'
Tam laughed and then started talking again.
'Well, the answer is that if anyone had a lover,
she did. Alex didn't have enough time to see
anyone else. He was almost always at the
restaurant or at home. But we think Alice was
probably seeing someone else. Nobody is sure.
And nobody knows who the other man is, or was.'
'Did you try and find out?' asked Logan.
'Of course. I mean, we are journalists, you know!'
Logan smiled.
Tam spoke again. 'One of our men followed her a
few times when he wasn't busy. But he didn't find
anything. The strange thing was he lost her
twice. Both times it was a Thursday evening.'
'So you never found out if there was another
man?' asked Logan.
'No,' said Tam. 'We wanted to find out more, but
we couldn't spend all our time following her.
There were other more important stories.'
'Well, thanks, Tam. You've given me some good
information. It's very kind of you.'