"You're strange to this country, and you don't know all the ins and outs of--things.

It wouldn't do any good to you or anybody else, and it might do a lot of harm." His eyes nicked her face with a wistful glance.

"You don't know me--I really haven't got any right to ask or expect you to trust me.

But I wish you would, to the extent of forgetting that you saw--or thought you saw--anything that night in Rock City." Lorraine shivered and covered her eyes swiftly with one hand.

His words had brought back too sharply that scene.