In the living room of her house at Malibu Beach, Kitt Mead faced Paul Cromwell. Paul had just asked Kitt a question - a question which for the moment had sent Kitt into a panic. She was faced with Paul's demand to know why she hadn't told him the truth, and why she'd pretended that the reason for her wanting Lisa Fenner's child was solely to protect him from possible unpleasantness. During the past month, Kitt had cleverly worked on Paul's natural fear of having his quiet, smoothly run life upset, convincing him to let her adopt Lisa's baby - but now it was quite evident to Kitt that all of her plans were endangered by the doubt that invaded Paul's mind...