Traitors' Gate
“Anyway he had felt confident that he would be able to overcome any feeling she might have that it was her duty to hand him over to the police.
Even had she had friends with her of her own nationality, and from surprise at seeing him had greeted him with an exclamation in English, dangerous as such a situation would have been he might, with luck, have put up a bluff of some kind which would have stalled off any immediate action.
But to come across her in the company of a Nazi, let alone Hitler’s Foreign Minister, was a thing that he had never remotely contemplated. Still worse, from what he had heard she made no concealment of the fact that she was Ribbentrop’s mistress, and a convinced Nazi herself.
As they stared at one another from fifteen paces’ distance he kept his face completely immobile. For her English lover to turn up in Budapest during the war was so unlikely that, if he showed no signs of recognition, he thought there was just a chance she might decide that she had been mis...led by a resemblance.MoreLess
Even had she had friends with her of her own nationality, and from surprise at seeing him had greeted him with an exclamation in English, dangerous as such a situation would have been he might, with luck, have put up a bluff of some kind which would have stalled off any immediate action.
But to come across her in the company of a Nazi, let alone Hitler’s Foreign Minister, was a thing that he had never remotely contemplated. Still worse, from what he had heard she made no concealment of the fact that she was Ribbentrop’s mistress, and a convinced Nazi herself.
As they stared at one another from fifteen paces’ distance he kept his face completely immobile. For her English lover to turn up in Budapest during the war was so unlikely that, if he showed no signs of recognition, he thought there was just a chance she might decide that she had been mis...led by a resemblance.MoreLess
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