After the WarChapter 23 London
Some weeks later Colonel Esser announced to Lady Johnson that she was to accompany him to London for two nights as his companion to a meeting with his boss. There were things to discuss, and she would not be present at those meetings, but she would partner him at dinner and, of course, in bed. They travelled in the early evening from Oxford in a reserved compartment on the train, in a coach clearly marked as for German officials only. When they are nearly there the Colonel said, "At dinner...