After Lea had told Glenda and John about her conversation with Bill and her upcoming travel plans John had decided to submit her paperwork as though he was transferring her to the Hanoi desk, reconciling himself with the fact that if she and Bill made a go of it she'd likely want to stay anyway. It would be a nice surprise he thought.
John endeavored to be the peacemaker between Lea and Glenda, but to little avail. Glenda had resigned herself to the fact that Lea was so headstrong that she wasn't going to be able to stop her, but still held out hope that the Australian would somehow come to his senses and ask her not to come, after all it had been almost a year since he left.
That's a lot of time and water under the bridge she reasoned. Hell, Lea may still come to her senses, well at least she hoped she did.
The company solicitors had interviewed Lea and completed all of the paperwork before sending to be sent to the Vietnamese consulate in Paris. Surprisingly, the French had been one of the first countries to recognize Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and had invited them to open an embassy in Paris late in 1979. All European visa applications and business dealings were funneled directly through the consulate in Paris.
So when the package finally arrived and Lea opened it to find that John was transferring her to the Hanoi desk as a new correspondent she was speechless.
On one hand she desperately wanted to see Bill to see if she could rekindle their relationship, but at the same time didn't want to move to Hanoi. No, she wanted to bring him back to London.
She felt the shards of doubt and panic rise in her chest as she turned the situation over in her mind...
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