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The only hitch was that the guard, who claimed to have been offered a $43,300 payoff by the conspirators, had secretly informed the military police. When the conspirators parked the rented Volkswagen outside the prison walls at 3 a.m., three military Jeeps swooped down, and out piled a score of machine-gun-brandishing soldiers who arrested them. Lady Fleming, who had in the meantime gone for a drive in the country, was picked up at 5:40 a.m., when she returned home.
Rather than keep her in prison as a continued embarrassment to the regime, some Athenians suspected the government might find it more expedient simply to deport her. Lady Fleming, who has dual Greek and British citizenship, told newsmen after she was sentenced that "I am Greek and I will stay." But there were reports that the regime might pack her on a London-bound aircraft after she has spent a while in prison and the case has faded from the headlines, then issue a decree depriving her of her Greek citizenship.
* The name of a 4th century B.C. Theban general who defeated the Spartans.