When she’d been carted off in the ambulance, Alonzo had gone with her, looking at her with such desperate tenderness that Carlotta had burst into another furious bout of weeping. At the hospital they must have popped her arm back into its socket pretty quickly because right after Inspector Humphries had finished with Brady Sparkles, she was back. Graham and I were still lurking behind the box office, so we couldn’t see her, but we heard the jewel-encrusted pumps on the steps and could feel the atmosphere become supercharged by her electric presence. She refused the chair Inspector Humphries offered, so their conversation was punctuated by her tiger-like footfalls pacing up and down the length of the trailer. Luckily for us her voice was so resonant we heard every word. “You seem to have made a number of enemies here, Miss Markova,” the inspector began. “Great talent makes many enemies. They are jealous,” Irena replied dismissively. “Little people cannot bear to see such glory.
