"I have not yet ascertained," he said, softly, still looking only at Irina. "While all that has happened cannot be set right, I shall see that, for it, someone pays. They wish you to meet with a police officer?"

He did not even wait for Irina to reply.

"Then speak to the policeman you shall." Starkad ducked his head to smile at Jack slightly. "Such desecration deserves a response, and if there is an honest policeman in all Moscow, I trust the students of my brother Sebastien would have found him."