Chapter TwoBudapest was the terminus for the Express train on which they had come from France and there they would have to change.
It had been a long journey, but for Vida quite a comfortable one. Shortly before reaching Budapest, in order to match her new name, Vida altered her appearance.
Margit packed away the simple travelling gowns she had worn since leaving London and instead, Vida put on a far more elaborate creation which they had bought deliberately together with a great many other more sophisticated clothes before calling on the Prime Minister.
She also, in foreign fashion, used cosmetics on her face, which she thought swept away the last trace of an English appearance.
It certainly made her look older and in a way much more attractive, but she was concerned only with enterin
