"It was about 7:00. You were still here, but you were talking to Morty in your office, and I didn't want to interrupt."

I paused for a moment, clasping my hands and touching my index fingers to my chin. "Well, I don't know what that was all about," I said. "It's unusual to pull someone off a case that soon, but I guess she must have found that she wasn't as short-handed as she thought, so she didn't need to take up your time."

"That's what I thought," Frank said, "though I thought it was strange that she didn't just tell me that."

"It is," I acknowledged, "but I guess Ivana was in a hurry, or maybe she forgot that she hadn't explained the situation to you."

"Even so," Frank said, "I found it unusual. Unusual enough that I was still thinking about it after I went home. I couldn't get to sleep, not sure why, but I decided to come back to the office. If I was up anyway, I thought I'd see if I could get some work done."

"Frank, you don't need to be in the office at midnight," I said. "I know I've pointed out some areas where you need to improve, but the problem isn't that you're not putting in enough hours. You just need to more consistently act in a manner befitting a legal professional, which for some reason, you suddenly started doing a few minutes ago. But you don't need to let work consume your life."

"Really, it's no problem," Frank said. "I think I'd still be up anyway, even if I hadn't come in. But listen, it gets weirder. I saw that Janice was online before, and we had a chat over IM. It turns out that Ivana had done the same thing to her. She gave her a couple of cases earlier in the week, then this evening she took them back. And Janice doesn't know why."

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