Admiralty and four or five in Cairo
organizing and running a reference
library for the British Ministry of
Information in the Middle East.
Those years, for me good and
fruitful, came to an end at
Christmas 1945, when I left Egypt
to join my husband in New Delhi
where he was working on the staff
of the Commander-in-Chief,
General Auchinleck.
After a few brief months in
India, my health in a precarious
state, I was returned like a badly
wrapped parcel, to England. There
I found myself without a job, and
with precious little to do except