The fake "Julia" panicked. With tears in her eyes, she looked at me, then at Mary and Cecilia, before finally dropping to her knees in front of Derek.

"Mr. Grant, please let me go!" she begged. "I shouldn't have been so foolish, shouldn't have tried to pass myself off as..."

Derek, who was usually impatient with others, frowned, "Go beg whoever sent you here."

"I..." As her eyes started to dart around, Mary snapped, "Get her out of here right now! Mom, I say we shouldn't ...