LondonTHE Durhams met at St James’s Park underground station and waited on the platform for the train to Charing Cross.
Margaret felt worried. ‘I didn’t like it in that Consulate. The Soviet Consul and that Attaché gave me the creeps. Something’s wrong there.’
‘It was bad at the Hungarian office, too,’ Barbara agreed.
‘There was a smell of fear. They are unhappy places. And Helena and Tibor and Andrei have to go back there. Will we ever see the three of them again?’
On the platform some people were carrying furled banners. There was a demonstration planned for Trafalgar Square that afternoon, to protest at the government’s policy over Suez.
‘And why did Andrei change like that? It’s been happening since we got back from the caravan. Tibor and Helena changed a bit, too. But Tibor’s so
