Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-08-19

jobs. I'm on my way back to mine"
Where are you accredited?" she
asked him, as he had let her a little
way into his life.
''Im attached to the British embassy
in Cairo. My mother was Ill up north
Luckily she's out of danger so I'm go
ave been in Egypt two or three
times but not just lately. Not since our
representative out there became an
ambassador. Are you happy, struggling
with the pashas?"
And then for a while they discussed
Egyptian affairs.
But somehow-and it seemed almost
mysterious to Lady Gleadon, consider
ing that they were strangers-they
eventually got back to more personal
talk and to the discussion Of moral
problems, sometimes with reference to
themselves. The mans reading of
Freuds book was perhaps responsible
for that. 1t had opened the door to
that sort of thing in the beginning,
and having once come onto that carpet
1t was not difficult to tread there
again.
But by this time they had made
their names known to one another
She had told him that she was Lord
| Gleadon's wife and he had told her
that he was Cyril Harringbridge, third
secretary at the embassy in Cairo.
That's why I hadn't met you" she
said to him. Il suppose you've lived
a great deal abroad"
Most of my life" he said. Except
when | was at Elton and being edu-
Gated for diplomacy. never went to
Oxford or Cambridge, instead went
to Paris and Munich And then soon
I was in posts"
He told her where he had been be-
fore he was sent to Cairo.
'Dyou like your life?" she asked
Z do. Except that there's far too
he said. Cocktail parties by the
dozen and, of course, lots of evening
affairs. And one has to be very polite
by order"
IT think many diplomats and their
wives find their social duties a terrible
corvee," she said. One Of our best
known ambaSSadreSSeS told me that
sometimes she felt as if her embassy
we're a railway station, into which
every Briton-born person felt the right
to enter. Still it's interesting to meet
many people"
You think SOP" he said, rather
abruptly.
ECOH1C l14h Vi Ndl4Cbys OQb L 1llQ
there's fearful sameneSs in people.
Don't you?"
She didn't answer for moment, but
sat in her corner by the window con-
sidering. She was thinking about the
Arlington house party, which she
hadn't been sorry to leave. Why was
that? Wasn't it perhaps because Of an
intellectual samenesS that she had
been conscious of in it, a sameness
of trying to be up to a certain mark,
to walk on the same level of the rest
of those there?
you don't want to answer?" he
said.
thinking over the people I've Just been
with for three days and nights. I'VE
been staying with the Arlingtons and
they had rather large house party"
And isn't there sameneSs of house
yves, I'm afraid there is. But really
you're over-young to have reached
such a conclusion. call it premature
mo, I don't think so. The young Of
our time-I'm 30-are not at all young
in the sense they apparently used to
be in, let us say, the pre-great war
days. And perhaps I have special
reason for taking what suppose some
people might call a cynical view Of
bIlGoC 6QCAdA LAGtbJCADs
Have you? May know what 1t is?"
But you see 1t" he said, with
rather Wry smile.
"See it?"
'T went bald when I was only 25."
TOO badl" she said, not smiling.
$50 ridiculously are we subservient
to our bodies" he said, that believe
if I'd kept my hair-I had lots Of it
as a boy-I might have had a very
different outlook on life from the one
7 daresay that it is true. Byron's
zone could find many instances to
prove this In the lives Of well known
people. But I doubt If my premature
badness win ever be numbered among
He said this smiling as If contemp-
tuous of his preoccupation about a
physical defect.
How PROFESSIONALLY limited ones
outlook Is by personal matters" he
said That's one Of the things which
makes me doubt gravely whether we
NAV have any life but this one. Find
me the man who Is worthy OF Eternal
COR the woman" she said, soberiy.
And they continued 70 talk with
curious intimacy about matters seldom
discussed by two people ut . first