But there are limits; to get off in a lie, you have to make the effort to tell a lie. William didn’t. He told McNulty, in an insolent tone of voice, that he had slept in because he had been at the pub last night, he added, insult to injury, that he hadn’t had much time to do any work on the assignment as he ‘had been busy all this week’. Any old excuse would have done, but No, William wasn’t playing.
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