He had decided to book himself in for Easter and rather hoped Anna would join him, but she declined. The pressures of recent weeks were beginning to make him feel edgy. He found it hard to concentrate and was also finding it difficult to get to sleep at night without the help of a couple of stiff glasses of whisky and paracetomol, and he thought that a few days away might help his general well-being. Besides, he reasoned, Christmas had turned out better than he hoped, and who knows – he might find another Anna. As he surveyed the large ballroom, his mind started wandering back to the last meeting he had with the ATU. What were they onto? Was Fadyar really implicated in some terrorist plot? He went over and over the evening he and Cindy spent with Fadyar at Red Gables, almost a year ago. There was nothing about Fadyar that alarmed him. She was very amiable, polite and cultured. In fact, she was pleasant company and whilst she was quite clear on her requirements of the business aspects, at no time was she overbearing about them.
