Everyone stopped breathing for a heartbeat and the scene froze in Samantha's memory, like a still from a film. The huge man cowering in the corner, his hands raised in the sign of the evil eye, Mrs Winton looking up at him pleadingly, the waiters halted in mid-serve, their trays suspended above their heads, the customers staring in horror and disbelief at the boy beside her - and Rupert himself, trembling like a young deer, backed against the wall with his hands flat out behind ...