Chapter ThreeCorena arrived home.
She wondered apprehensively if there would be anybody waiting for her from Mr. Thespidos.
There appeared, however, to be nobody about.
She went upstairs to take off her hat and tidy her hair and, when she came down, everything seemed quiet.
She went into the drawing room and through the open window she could hear the buzzing of the bees and the birds singing in the bushes.
She tried to believe that all this drama was only a nightmare.
But with a constriction of her heart she recognised that it was only too real.
Her father was in great danger and entirely through her own fault she had failed to save him.
How could she have been so stupid as to go disguised in a pair of tinted spectacles?
Mr. Thespidos had suggested something vulgar and unpleasant,
