“You thought someone was on his tail?”
“I couldn’t say. Perry never said.”
Alain got the feeling that she’d rehearsed her answers beforehand. “Miss Moon, any details you can give me will be helpful.”
“Sometimes I was in a basement underground. For a couple of years, I was bound in an attic, and there were other rooms, but the only thing I saw of the outside world were trees, a forest of trees, mostly evergreens. Probably North America, but I can’t even be sure of that. And you can’t be sure that he’ll hold Kat Bloom in the same places I was held.” She spoke in a breezy, easygoing manner, as if she was trying to convince him that Perry had had little affect on her. “Perry never impressed me as a man who put down roots.
Alain poked around at the salad, which had suddenly appeared in fron
