As soon as Linda went into the department that sold raincoats, she ___(1)___ there was something unusual in the ___(2)___. ___(3)___ there was a salesman there and a saleswoman. That was very unusual in the women's coat department. He asked if he could be ___(4)___ any help. But when she said that she was just ___(5)___ he did not seem to be ___(6)___. He did not look very much like a salesman, ___(7)___. A second later a raincoat ___(8)___ her eye. She asked a question about it. He did not ___(9)___hear her at first. She asked again. She___(10)___to know if he had any coats like it with a detachable lining (可拆开的衬里). He did not seem to ___(11)___ what a detachable lining was. She explained. Then she went on looking. She ___(12)___ that the salesman seemed to ___(13)___ another customer in the department all the time.
The other customer, a middle-aged woman, ___(14)___ the department. The salesman ___(15)___ went to the phone and told somebody on the other end that the woman had gone and had ___(16)___ two leather belts without paying for them. Then he turned to Linda and ___(17)___ that he was not a ___(18)___ at all but a store detective. Later, Linda ___(19)___ in the paper that a woman had been arrested for stealing some belts from a department store, or in other ___(20)___, for shop lifting.