"I don't want to talk," Ben responded hotly. He wasn't thinking straight, of course, because what Angie and Greengrass were suggesting was clearly the more reasonable answer. It wasn't doing Melody any good to cause a scene in the middle of the street, and it was clearly a scene at this point — Macmillan had someone tending to him but they weren't gone yet, and even if they were, this was too public a place for them not to have attracted some other attention already.

"I want to know what you did to my wife," he said, pushing past Angie and giving the potioneer a hearty shove towards the hedge behind him.