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POLITICAL FAITHFU MELINDA MACLEAN few minutes before he Jett his house. with Burgess, wilh the excuse thal he would be back that night. What can be more troubled, art, still irresolnte, than Moelinda’s ery: “ T wilh not admit that my husband is a traitor to his country?” She was not an independent chatacter. She was notably shy, Whenever she was in trouble ever her husband or her diff. cult pregnancies she sent for her mother, ee Her mother says that. she sug- gested the stay in Switeerland, so that her grandchildren couid be,educated at an international school in Geneva which she had originally sponsared. at Melfneda still felt her chil- dreh’s need for a father, — She seriously eentemplated ANATIC—OR WIFE? divorce and re-marriage—and that is unlikely to have been a ruse since she first unburdened herself of the idea to an adviser in Hospital under circunistances of great nervous tension, Then she seamed honestly to believe that no one Would "ever marry a woman with Her un- fortunate background: “ Who would marry a notorious woman. like me wiih three snail children?” Cagis ts ik ahd ah oil ND what of her own feeling for Donald Maclean? He had not. been a. good hus- band. But they bad callld themselves. happy. Three weeks after Donald left her, when she was about fr undergo a Cesarean operatios from which she might die, she wrote a letter. * Mi dearest Donald” she said. “Lf you ever receive this letter it apill qeettie tok shown be frere fo tell you fuow ruck fF wee you and frou really proud of you £ am, My only regret is that perhaps yaoi » don't kuow Row I feet. “EP feel f leaue behind and have fad a wondertul gift in your lone mud ihe evistence of Fergie and Danald.” That, surely, is the tone of a womati in love, even after eleven tumulious years of marriage, We are asked to say that. it shows she was 4a. Communist. But may it mot be saving * Because of my love, T will try to accept your loyalty to Gom- muism 2 Aud she tools her children wth ver, aot beeavse she tidied fem brought up as Cola aunisis, buf because they needed a father... . a an a