believe that anything has happened or is happening to distress you.

But it is our woman's privilege to be inconsistent, and we should

be still more inconsistent if we did not use it. Besides I have

felt the same vague disquietude about you more than once before and

have not written. Perhaps I should not write even now unless I had

a great deal more time at my disposal than I know what to do with.

Who knows? If you are busy, write a word on a post-card, just to

say that nothing is the matter. Here in Egypt we do not realise

what time means, and certainly not that it can ever mean money.

"It is an idle life, less idle for me perhaps than for some of