My name is Victoria Winters. The hours tick by in the great house on Widows' Hill and there is still no word. The boy I had been brought here to tutor has not yet been found, and the faint whisper of fear is slowly becoming louder...fear that grips the heart of a woman who suspects a truth she cannot bear to face.Burke returns to his hotel room and finds David in the hallway outside the door. When Burke leaves the room David hides the bleeder valve in the sofa. When David is out of the room, Burke finds the bleeder valve that he saw David hide.