Perhaps equally disturbing was the fact that she would have felt insulted if he'd implied victimhood on her part. There were many words Una would have applied to herself over the course of her life history, but "victim", willing or otherwise, had never been a favourite.

She lifted up her sunglasses and perched them on the top of her head so that he could see her eyes. "And that's my other reason for suggesting a change of venue," she murmured. "I wonder that you felt you had to pry it out of me."