Mma Makutsi was well aware of that particular issue. “Oh, I know about people like that, Mma,” she said. “But you can always tell—or, at least, I can always tell. I’m not sure if ordinary people can tell, though…” The reference to ordinary people was one that cropped up occasionally in Mma Makutsi’s conversation. Ordinary people, clearly a large category of persons, were either those who had not attended the Botswana Secretarial College—Mma Makutsi’s alma mater—or those who had no experience of being a private detective. Both of these backgrounds seemed to endow one with qualities of
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