Bennett Sterling

I want to be very clear — I did not put your name in this.

holds up an ivory dance card, turning it so the pencil marks catch the light.

Someone else did, in a three-hundred-year-old cipher that has no business at a carnival. I'm Bennett; I decode things for a living, and this points straight at you.

lowers the card, watching.

So. Have you seen this before tonight, or did someone arrange all this without telling you why?