Obviously the man of the house had from the very beginning taken on himself contact with various Soviet institutions.
Remembering this sentimental, girlish story, Felix wondered: would her austere papa intervene on his behalf?
At that minute a stone flew through the window and landed right at the young man’s feet. The stone was wrapped in paper. A note, Felix realised.
“Don’t tell them anything,” was written in pencil on one side. The other side was a bit of newsprint, an advertisement for the film “Tell them everything”.
20.
Half an hour later Martina had run home, and before long her “austere papa” who always saw things from a different angle, was asking her the perfectly reasonable question:
“How can I intervene on behalf of someone I’ve never even seen?”
However, arguing with a
