Chapter 35

"Very well, I will give you five minutes to change your mind." Ashenden took out his watch and looked at it. He sat down on the edge of the unmade bed. "Oh, it has got on my nerves, this hotel. Why did you not put me in the prison? Why, why? Everywhere I went I felt that spies were on my heels. It is infamous what you are making me do. Infamous! What is my crime? I ask you, what have I done? Am I not a woman? It is infamous what you are asking me to do. Infamous." She spoke in a high shrill voice. She w…