When she heard I was leaving she went out of her mind, screamed & shouted. Ordered me into the kitchen but I was out that door so quickly you couldn’t see me for dust. She wouldn’t give me my belongings. She was going to report me to police. She was going to have me sent back to Vienna which was rubbish, because war had broken out anyway.
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