Contents

Chapter One

I lifted my pen from the paper and stared out…

Chapter Two

AS IT HAPPENED, I arrived in England before my latest…

Chapter Three

MY ARM WAS stubborn and refused to heal properly. By…

Chapter Four

I TURNED AWAY, looking at the gleaming white walls of…

Chapter Five

I HAD MISSED luncheon and was beginning to wish Dr. Philips’s…

Chapter Six

I LOST COUNT of time. I had almost no rest,…

Chapter Seven

WHEN WE GATHERED in the dining room for our noon…

Chapter Eight

THE RECTOR, WALKING briskly across to the church, waved to…

Chapter Nine

THE MAGISTRATE, THE aging relict of the man who had…

Chapter Ten

I HURRIED INTO the church and sat down in a…

Chapter Eleven

THE NEXT THING I knew, a watery sunlight shone through…

Chapter Twelve

I NEEDN’T HAVE worried. She was out, and the flat…

Chapter Thirteen

THE NEXT MORNING, Mr. Owens was there with his motorcar when…

Chapter Fourteen

MY FATHER HAD his motorcar waiting, with a familiar driver.

Chapter Fifteen

GETTING THERE WAS easier said than done. Once more we…

Chapter Sixteen

PEREGRINE WAS WAITING for me, and I said as I…

Chapter Seventeen

I TOLD PEREGRINE that shifting Lady Parsons’s belief in her…

Chapter Eighteen

A MR. FREEMAN agreed to conduct us to the home of…

Chapter Nineteen

AT THE SOUND of footsteps, Jonathan Graham whirled, stepped back…

Chapter Twenty

I WAS ALREADY braking hard, with all my strength, weaving…

Chapter Twenty-One

I HAD COME to the conclusion that French rain was…