29/59 I happened to say something about some Oriental curios belonging to an aunt of mine in London. "What did you say was her name ?" she asked, blandly. "She has a fancy for these things, you know. She brought a lot of them home with her from Burma." As a matter of fact, as I have already explained, my poor dear aunt is an extremely commonplace old Army widow, whose husband happened to get knighted among the New Year's honours for some brush with the natives on the Shan frontier. |