It was the afternoon of the day following Lisa Fenner's return from the hospital. Paul Cromwell had driven Lisa back to his house at Malibu Beach the day before, while Kitt Mead, Mrs Kingsley and Lisa's baby son had been taken to Kitt's house a few doors away. This had been a strange day for Lisa. In the hospital there had been the activity of the daily routine, which had helped to break the monotony, but today, lying in the room Paul and Max had prepared for her, Lisa had been alone most of the time, thinking...