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wanted to be free he would somehow have found where she had moved to after Ralph's death. Fear gripped her that he could well refuse to arrange for them to be quietly divorced somewhere. And another half an hour went by and many ripped up sheets of paper before she finally settled for, 'Dear Nash, If it's all right with you I should like to be free. Would you let me know as soon as possible if you are agreeable to a divorce. Yours sincerely, Perry Grainger. P.S. I've put my landlady's phone number and am known as Miss Grainger.'
    Quickly she folded the single sheet of paper and slipped it into its 'Strictly Private and Confidential' envelope, knowing if she stopped to re-read what she had written that too would be torn up, another attempt to be made.
    She went to bed, aware that she would know little rest until her letter had been posted.
    CHAPTER THREE
    PERRY overslept the next morning, which was just as well, she thought, as hurrying to work she slipped her letter to Nash in the post box. Had there been time she knew very well she would have been tempted to scrap what she had written and start again. She continued on her way musing, well, at least now she had actually done something in an attempt to get the ball rolling. All she had to do now was to wait for Nash to come back from the States. He would contact her then, she felt sure. And then she and Trevor...
    A week later she was still waiting. Anxious, racing home each night hoping for a letter, afraid to go out in case Nash rang and she missed him, when no word came she fell back on the thought that he must still be abroad.
    She had gone out on Saturday. Not only did she not want to put Trevor off in case Nash did ring, but since her last conversation with Trevor, over the telephone, had not been all that satisfactory, she was eager to see him to make up. Trevor had been equally eager to see her, and she felt a glow inside that he wasn't holding a grudge because she had put him off last Wednesday. So happy had she been, in fact, that any thought of cooling the situation between them until her annulment came through went right out of her head, and she dated him on Sunday and Monday as well.
    But by the time Wednesday came around and still no word from Nash Devereux, her anxieties were beginning to show through.
    'Something worrying you?' Trevor enquired. They were sitting outside her flat in his car after an evening spent at the cinema.
    'No, nothing, nothing at all", she denied, half of her ready to panic that after several hours spent in her company he must have realised she wasn't her usual self, while the other half of her was wondering if this wasn't just the opportunity to tell him everything.
    'Is it something I've said?' he insisted, plainly not believing her when she said nothing was wrong.
    She looked at him, the light from a street lamp making his fair hair seem darker, softening the sharp lines of his features. 'I...' she began, and didn't get any further.
    'Perhaps it's something I've not said,' he interrupted.
    She heard the smile in his voice and the moment was lost when she might have gathered all her courage and told him. She knew then that he was referring to the fact that he hadn't followed up from his intimation over a week ago that he was considering asking her to marry him.
    'Bear with me, darling,' he said, his voice still smiling, confident he knew her answer once he had everything sorted out in his mind. 'Only last night Mother was saying exactly what I've already told you, that I need to be very sure before I commit myself.'
     A mixture of emotions beset Perry. She wasn't sure she liked the way Trevor was taking a long detached looked at the prospect of them being married. The way he was not allowing anything of impetuous love to rule his head. Any more than she liked the fact that he had obviously been discussing her—and discussing marrying her—with his mother.
    Then all the guilt of her secret flooded in and she felt further guilt heaped