appeared. And I said, oh, hello. I'm Simon Winchester. And this is Jackie Leishman. You must be a Mrs. Morris. And this person said, no, I'm James, actually. And there was this brief moment of disbelief. But then we stood up and this person said, I'll get my wife. And I thought, now this is spiraling out of control because James, you know, he'd climbed to 26,000 feet on Mount Everest, had been a captain in the British army and the Brigade of Guards, had fathered four children, had walked alone across the Hadramat in the southern part of Arabia. So whoever was going to come down the stairs, would I? Assume be a bearded person with a Yukon Jack shirt. Not at all. Down the stairs comes a middle-aged lady with a little girl in tow. And we all troop off into the drawing room to have tea with me, fairly obviously a man and Jackie, fairly obviously a young woman and Elizabeth Morris. Middle-aged lady and Suki, a little nine-year-old girl. And my hero, my mentor, twinsett and pearls, little (47/57)
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