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9.

Frank was worth a million Rexs! The trouble
is really that it is almost impossible to know a
person until he or she has been tested & tried out
in some way. In civil life there is seldom time &
practically never an opporunity. With the three of
us in Cairo & afterwards for those weeks at the I.B.D.,
Frank & I just carried on in our fixed purposes of
getting in touch with our wives as soon as possible &
writing as much as possible & seeing as much of the
country as possible & generally ordering our lives.
Whereas Rex just degenerated - made passes at
the first girls to look at him, was idle in sightseeing,
slept on his bed in the afternoon & talked a hell of a
lot of nonsense & neglected Marjorie. And during
this time Frank & I drew closer together & formed
a solid friendship & realised that the others ideas
& ideals were bored on solid ground. And here we
are very close & firm friends. But how can
you reproduce all that in civil life?

Maybe the answer is to have more acquaintances,
& to be less intolerant. We shall work it all
out when we begin again - & it is not a matter
about which it is necessary to plan ahead.

But I can promise you that you will like Frank
very much indeed. And I hope he will be careful.
No letters or anything again today darling. Goodnight
sweetest dear XXXXX H.

Tuesday Oct 28th And 11.0 pm - so I will just finish this on
the other side of the page & post it in the morning.