" Dr Simpson swept in through the front door. His expression of irritation and curiosity turned to one of confusion and dismay as he took in the scene that greeted him: his housemaid in another man's home after dark, his apprentice bruised and bleeding, and both of them standing over the trussed-up figure of his sister-in-law's betrothed.

"I have one or two wee questions, laddie," he said quietly. "

― Ambrose Parry , The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)