CHAPTER IVSTRANGE EVENTS
The truth of the matter was, Worrals was not particularly surprised to find the Germans there. She knew that they were almost certain to encounter them sooner or later, so she was prepared for the eventuality.
“You didn’t tell me you had daughters, madame,” said the younger of the Germans, who did not measure up to Worrals’ idea of a Nazi. He was short, rather fat, and blond, although he had already lost most of the hair on the front of his head. His service cap was tilted well back to reveal this, as though it were something to be proud of. His eyes were of no special colour. His lips hung slightly apart, so that under a straw-coloured moustache large white teeth were always visible. This rather harmless-looking face was rounded off by a pair of spectacles, whic
