She was not handcuffed, simply because Stein thought, as Weigand would have thought, that it was absurdly unnecessary. And Stein did not notice Carey, except as a figure in a shadow, braced against the wind, because in routine operations you did not plan against the preposterous. So Stein was quite unprepared for the preposterous when it occurred.
(from Murder Is Served, by Richard and Frances Lockridge)
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