Two days later she was in Katowice, and wanted to cross the closed Polish border into Germany. 'John Thwaite, the Consul-General said, "Where do you want to go, old girl?" Everyone was "old girl" in those days,' she remembers. 'So I said: "I want to go into Germany." He said: "Aren't you funny, old girl? You can borrow my car." So I borrowed it, and drove into Germany.'