Confession is Good for the SoulThe Mount Pleasant Hotel stands in its own grounds, a majestic building that was once the home of a titled lord, at another time a military hospital caring for war-wounded troops and then after a period of post-war decline bought and renovated by a burgeoning hotel chain, gradually being transformed into the four star pleasure palace that had been chosen by Roger Cahill the elder for his meeting with Connor and Clay. At first Cahill had resisted Connor's insistence that he be accompanied by his sergeant, Cahill's fear and distrust of all strangers only giving way when Connor insisted fiercely that he must have his sergeant with him to take down any notes required. He would be too busy talking to Cahill, he'd said, to bother about taking accurate notes, which
