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” Onthat May evening in 1951 when Donald disap- | pegred Melinda “had two -chfidren, Fergus. aged 7, and XDdnaid. "5. They had bot bon born by | Caesarlal tion, The third baby _was due In a few weeks--on i June) v - . IS This “fact alone shows an | ‘extraordinary devotion and love * for her husband. Few women } would look “forward, after two) dimeult births demanding an operalic’ to, a third ehild which would have to be bom the same way. : : ce, For even! yn contrast. 18 Donald's! | have shown | that he felt, he. behaviour’ towards bis sim’. pend upot ne American Wife. His strange - ‘questioning devotion to receive ’ character. Was alWays most secret_m es from him, how. ’ Obedient: HEN pe left there ow ' no que e esti fidknt of his wife's unswerving 2 3 a 5 i i 2B 3 Gareable in his: relationship ‘ever mystifying ‘they were and ~ with her. > + a however -siniaer the methods M k . he used to get in touch with eeRness ‘Gbviously ‘he never” thought ERY often-—fand; for, & moment she wquld. : ticularly ring, ,auetion his motives, or belay er. pregnancy—the | ‘his ‘whereabouts or the confact Immacu.ate Forelgn Office; mef his friends employed. . denarimental head would nov yw much at confidepce -- Cadh the 5.19 from Victoria: | Wa justified | Even to her to fine with his wife and play he hi wign his children. © 3 g z - 3 zs s $ s,* Sometimes he was drunk. Sometimes, he preferted ‘the company of his friends, wie a Re would put up with su saviour. bf ‘But apparently Melinda bore ‘This ts i with e meekness that would.” live in the in’ him, In a'letter, according Geoflrey jHoare, ‘said: the first time T have the mulacle of city y i yave surprised an Earl yea}s, and I simply love it, Never fe RAFlY |. imegzion the country to, fle ‘tuation. on || j #8ajo except for ‘week-ends Jor «.| rT th birth-"} ; holflays.” . . rs the eve of Donald's 38th pinta 4} "Sfir''Gia’ she really lovel 1% ° 'Shddenly, announced he would; ; because in the anonymity, of | o'cfock, He went ‘to Southam) *to8 with Burgess an peared bghind the Iron Curtain ane oe n : that Donald was com -'- . bought her new daughter inet Rose @ new coal wy _ meet the father she hed never.’ & seen’ “ae St ‘ 1 Overnight” she renounced"! everything she had known, ; 1 believed, Sind had been brought : Pa ‘up with, : “Pghe left her mother without ' ; & goodbye or & backward glance. ; |, She must have known ahe might * pever see her again. + cause of that‘love that: she ‘ossed the frontier that divides ° the world ints two without, sigh of farewell ? 80, it is thi j. story of a wife's devotion un- ' paralleled in modern history. t ; P*But is it convincing? Or has | Mrs. Dunbar mistaken the~ + motives of her own daughter J * | There could be a stronger j stranger motive for the behav! olpMelinda. . . The student - . © back - to th : crowded, _ cosmopo! . . tan Café Flore on the?, Left Baak in Paris at Christmas~ 1939, Tt was there during 2 » Reried, of the phoney war that! : Metinda , was introduced “toy Donald. - oh .. "He was good looking and 26, #3 | Foreign Office man who would . rhaps be an ssador per ‘one. e was a 23-year-old) ‘American girl who had spent & - year in Paris studying in & ‘at the Sorbo desultory wi + Twas a significant moment in Western Europe. At thate time Communism among the “nyllectuals, had probablyy: reqched. its highes 8.5 nish Civil War, - with ‘fiefcely -felt. political cl wak not far behind, ‘The (és were @ Melinda talked and sat; with the fluent advocates of international Communism day, ier day until two or. three’ Srclock in the morning in the ergwded chalrto-ghalr calés pot BY ould nave been impossipie, | |\usfess she were deaf, not to hear’ thhir dogma _Tepeated ;