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eg se or vhyg ‘olty It was posaibl ; Tpoeive messages without anys b terfering with her~ plans in her husband fy" 2 7%. When the cali came. eyed it unhesitatingly. : : _ bought her new daughter ‘Pink |; te Dos " Rose & new coat and shoes to\ ‘ ve oo _ -neet the father she had never,! > ° ight’ she renounced”! ~ On-that May evening in Overnig - 1951 when Donald disap- everything dened had nome i . pegred Melinda. had two er ‘ <a | up with! Tous 7 Oda” Ferpine aged 7 and] | 097 i She left her mother without | SDanaid, 6. hey had bot ; ’ gs goodbye or a backward glance. ; “bepn porn: by Caesarlary :, She must have known she mighs. Hon ae tew we xenon ° SAT eee eats of het love for* : was ave a few weeks—On Im that she took her children . : _ . oin their father? Was 1,. ans inary alone an end love | oe pais O bedient:#.” 7 cause ot that love, tha ane 4 ; enon ne ce : - dross é jrontier that es: for her husband. Few women; js, ae ee the world into two without @ , would look ‘forward, after two | . HEN he left there , ‘ sigh of farewell ? Tf so, it is the ? if of i di@cult births demanding an now ' no questidh +! story of a wife's devotion ups * [ operation. to @ third child | | that Donald was com 3-0 paralleled in modern history. ‘which would have to be born | | aden. of his’ wife's unswerving | . 3 "But is it convincing? Or. nas ! i the same way. ye Yiove and obedience, For events ~ . 1 Mrs. Dunbar mistaken thes “Tn contrast js Donald's ‘have ahbown that he felt, he. ‘ motives of her own daughter J ¢ behaviour’ towards his slim; ,could depend upon her oun- |, There could be a stronger di American Wife. His strange : ‘questioning devotion to receive © | stranger motive for the benavl i. character. Was slways most | SecreL messages from him. hew- | uf,Melinda. re i> “noticeable in his: relationship ever mystifying they were and T J t d t : ith her. - ° 7 : owever : sinister e me s, : se 3 wih . _ he used to get in touch with es ue en the a M se er. pee 7 : : - 1 . eek ness ; ‘Obviously he- never . thought : crowded, cosmopoll-'4 ERY often—tand; for, & moment she wduld. { . : tan Café Flore on the?, V articularly ring, ,quépiion his motives or befFay . Left Baak in Paris at Christmas ariicuregnancy—the | ‘his[ whereabouts or the son ct 1939. it was there during the- Immacu.ate Forelgn Office, me his friends employed. -| . period of the phoney war that / departmental head would not ow much that confidepce -: - Pfetinda , was introduced «to; cathh the 5.19 from Victoria: Wa justified | Even to her; ' Donald. . : ” eas to Hine with his wife and play ‘mother, who was her closest "He was good looking and 26, a5 wign his children. - confidante apart from her hus- - ; Foreign Office man who would ; e stayed in London and-she ‘band, sme never uttered one |. | Derhaps be an ambassador one did not hear’ from him for two, word which would give any clue: | day. : i. ao : or three days, ° Sometimes he to her missing husband's secret.’ ” .- She was & 23 - year - ald 4 was drunk. Sometimes he She took a fiat In Geneva to :. American gitl who had spent @/ preferred “the company of his be ready when the word came to -year in Paris studying in & friends, | Few women would ‘join: bim, In a‘letter, according desultory way at the Sorbonne. - ui up with such pehaviour. - Geoffrey ;Hoare, she aaid <- : TL was & significant moment But apparently Melinda bore - «This is the first time T nave. in Western Europe. At that: yt with a meekness that_would . ‘Iived in the middle’of a city fpr | time Communism among the lhave surprised an Early |, Yeaps, and T simply love it, Never - ‘intgiiectuals had probablyy i Victorian nousewlfe. eREOE | megtion the country to me - regched: its highest peak. " wins was the situation, on .| { #ealo except for week-ends for v4 Sphnish Civil War, * with fite 4 | the eve of Donald's 38th birthe {| | HOlplays.” 0 tt ‘fiebcely felt. political c g ‘day in May 1851, when hey. t did‘ she really loved 1% - wa not far behind, The Jett. } suddenly announced he would ~; ‘ because in the anonymity of @ - Bank cafés were filled n : pring @ friend home to dinner.) Rance eet refugees from Fascism. Anth ‘Tn spite of her condition and’, : -Hitlerism had given Commun y of ghis odd behaviour she set | an impetus it has never since ‘abdut making him & birthday - enjoyed in tre free world at, id was Burges4, - . nh j ‘ Fi i “ fe ae een dinner at at : with the fluent advocates of | ‘ gcfock. He went to Southamir.” international Communism aay » ‘tow with Burgess and disap . after | dey patil two of three ® . hin Iron Curtaitl . . a'eloc 2 morning in the” "peared bghind the Tron ee Ocanded chair-to-chair- calés of Si] Germain des Pres. i ft would have been imposst 16.74 \usgess she were deaf, not to hrar” thtir dogma _, repeated negqry : ‘every minute. ? 4 robe Dé | “pid she absork $f?" eee ~ a ere ¥ ee eg: i i er i