[He is surprisingly fast, Mr. Profit. And he bites, too! Maybe.]

At least then you'll know what it says. But I'm not interested in delving into your past yet. I want to know what it is you're doing now. Oh, plenty of people have had truly wonderful pasts and done things unquestionably terrible. Some people have come from deplorable backgrounds and gone on to do wonderful things. Who you are is more important than what you were.

So we'll skip to the end of the book for this meeting, what say you? A good writer always tells a mystery story backwards anyway.