Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand.

She's mine, he had said... and her heart had throbbed in answer... recognizing it as truth.

Derek.' There was an odd smile on her face. 'Your cockney is showing.

Writing books about whores... I'll bet you newer... joined giblets wiv a man in your lily-white life.'Dr. Hindley and Worthy began to reprove him, but Sara smiled quizzically. ' "Joined giblets?" ...I've never heard it put that way before.