Later that evening, they all stopped at the diner to go over what they'd learned.
"I don't know, Bones. I think we're missing something, you know?"
"Yeah, Booth, like who the murderer is?" Obviously.
"No, Dr. Brennan, what Agent Booth is saying is that there's something else going on here, you know, there's some other major piece of this puzzle."
"Yeah Bones…that's it."
"Well, what is it, Booth?"
"Bones…I don't know…that's why I said it's 'missing'. As in, I don't know what it is."
"Oh, yeah. Well, Zack should know by tomorrow who the other body is, so that might help."
"What other body, Dr. Brennan?"
"Oh, well, when we found Anne/Harriet, it was kind of an accident. We kind of stumbled on her body when we'd been called to identify a skeleton, right Bones?"
"Right…maybe that will tell us something."
"This is interesting." Sweets nodded his head. "Mark my words, Dr. Brennan. That skeleton will be of significance."
"How can you possibly know that, Dr. Sweets?" she wanted to know.
"Agent Booth will back me up on this one, right? It can't be a coincidence that both bodies were found there. Am I right, Agent Booth?"
"Well, I don't want to commit to anything, but, it seems that…I don't know. It's possible I guess, but…again…I don't want to say for sure."
"Why not, Booth?"
Sweets answered. "He's being cautious, Dr. Brennan." He spared a glance toward Booth, ignoring the agent's raised eyebrows, "He's advancing inch by inch, not hazarding a guess until he feels secure about his decision." Sweets restated the line Booth had highlighted in his copy of Emma.
"Oh, okay." Brennan accepted this, and Sweets hazarded himself a small grin.
Booth sat back. He knew he couldn't get upset with Sweets without having to explain the whole thing to her, and he didn't really want to do that. So he'd identified with that line from the book, big deal.