Noble raised his eyebrows at Dorset as if he was shocked by the accusation — obviously he knew it was weird and had since before Dorset had started talking to him, but he couldn't admit that he knew it was weird. If he admitted that it was weird, then everything was over. (To the extent that everything was not already over.) He let his eyebrows hang for a beat before he shrugged his shoulders at the constable.

"Wouldn't've been odd if Darrow had been on time," Noble said, after the shrug. "But I suppose I see your point."

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Jack didn't know why he thought he'd get forthright in return but he was disappointed none the less.  "Yeah...."  he said, drawing the word out.  He may have verbally agreed but everything from his squint to his posture advertised that Jack was almost at his limit of pretending to believe him.  He stood there for a moment.  Conflicted over what to do.  Obviously he wasn't going to be able to wait him out but he also knew with absolute certainty that he couldn't just go home and risk leaving Daffy the Potts vulnerable to some rando lurking on the street.

"I'm going to go this way."  he said nodding his head in the direction he'd just come, resolved to double back instead of going home.  "And I'm going to trust that you'll find your way soon.  Without trouble."  He said the last sentence as firmly as he could manage without the authority his uniform usually granted him. 

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Well, fair enough. "Sure," Noble said, with a nod. "Have a good night." He spent another minute looking at his watch after Dorset's departure, as if to create the illusion that he was still waiting, and then left — he went down the street in the direction of Billy Darrow's place, just in case Dorset was still watching him.

Eventually, he apparated home.

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Jack stuck to his word, trusting that Mr. Greengrass would be on his way, if only in the fact that he didn't turn around to check.  He made his way back towards the Potts house, this time going around the side to the back garden and the Black Lake.  He'd seek out Mr. Potts and tell him about the exchange and then Jack could relax enough to head home, knowing someone else was keeping an eye out.

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