This made it sound so correct that she knew it would never enter her grandmother’s head for one moment that she was doing anything so reprehensible as to travel to Paris.
Thinking back on it afterwards, Roberta was astonished that everything went so smoothly.
They managed to catch the morning train to Dover, which connected with the afternoon cross-channel ferry.
She could afford, with the money she had taken from the safe, to travel in every comfort and it was therefore not an arduous journey, except that they did not reach Paris until early the next morning.
It was then Roberta encountered the real difficulty, which was to find her father.
Afterwards he scolded her for embarking on such an escapade without knowing exactly where she could find him.
“I remembered two things, Papa,” R
