Chapter
15
FERDINAND AND MARTA HAD GONE ON NO HONEYMOON. EUROPE WAS jittery; and no country had extended any invitation, either enthusiastic or otherwise, for the newlyweds to visit it, notwithstanding the fact that several of them had been given ample opportunity- Crown Princes and Crown Princesses offered too tempting a target for assassins; so Ferdinand and Maria had had to be content with the hunting lodge, and even that had been very heavily guarded.
Neither of them had had a very pleasant time. Ferdinand was always thinking of Hilda, and Maria was always thinking of her horse face and buckteeth, to say nothing of her bones and her age. Ferdinand didn't help matters any, for he didn't even attempt to be decent to her. He spent his days playing golf or tennis with someone else, and
