"Two," Simon said. "The obvious ones of course. Stone was reported missing the 20th when she didn't return home from a planned end of term trip. Turns out she never went. So either she went missing purposefully and used the trip to buy some time, or this was unplanned and the investigation lost time. Helpful, I know. But it's not my case, I'm just being a good gopher."
He glanced at Jack. "Need me to step out for a moment, then?"
He was slightly annoyed at the previous of instructions of "You can go right in, he's expecting you," as that was clearly not the case. But really, that seemed to be par for the course.