#ask50

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Most fans called it as soon as “Who Could That Be At This Hour” came out. And when she revealed Bertrand was the past apprentice she actually liked in “Shouldn’t You Be In School”, the matter was pretty much closed for most of us. When this mistery was left unresolved in the last book, it actually came as a surprise; we expected Handler to close at least that loose end…

That being said, the arguments for this theory remain as valid as ever. Absence of confirmation does not imply contradiction.

The only perplexing thing is why Theodora always responds to the question “What does the S. stand for?” by a sentence beginning with the letter S. It could be some sort of VFD coded communication that Lemony hasn’t learned at this point. Qwerty tests the phrase “The World Is Quiet Here” on Lemony in “When Did You See Her Last?”, and Lemony doesn’t react; so clearly he does not know all VFD codes at this point of his apprenticeship.

I think Theodora is purposefully being obtuse to awake curiosity, determination and thouroughness in her apprentices. She’s training prospective detectives, after all. Whoever guesses what the S. stands for gets a glowing recommandation from at the end. Bertrand understood that, ended up guessing correctly and that’s one of the reasons Theodora respects him. Lemony wasn’t really interested in guessing what the S. stood for. He just kept asking Theodora to annoy her.