She had the feeling that he would be very frightening if he was angry.
She was not frightened of him in the same way that she was frightened of Mr. Thespidos, which was a very different thing.
Yet because he was a very important and masculine man, he made her feel small, insignificant and completely inadequate.
‘Which is what I am!’ Corena told herself. ‘I suppose, if I was really intelligent, I would go to London to see the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and ask him to save Papa.’
Then she knew without being told that this would take time. What was more, no one knew where Mr. Thespidos had hidden her father.
‘If I approached the Secretary of State, I am sure he would contact either the Police or the Military in Athens, which might be the right thing to do,’ she thought.
Then
