I like your idea. I just think that it won’t take a single slight that will do it. After all, if one slight would do it, this’d be a much shorter comic. Having a series of comic slights, however…

The first slight can be written off as “Wellll, she just came in, she’s probably tired…”. But then, it’s going to be slight after slight, and the rationalization is going to run thin. Until it runs out.

The sad thing is, Beate will probably be justified in feeling slighted, as La Grote is just going to swan her way through the detection and show just how clever she can be.