Richards merely barked, and given that they'd established that neither of them actually spoke dog, Jamie was left only to assume that their house was still in one piece, and that there hadn't been some doggy pow wow while they were out. Slipping off his coat, he hooked it up on the bamboo coatrack that stood in the corner, then stepped out of his shoes, which he quickly picked up from the ground before the dog could get at them.

"He's too smart to tell us if he did."