So we worked together and I can now read hieroglyphics as well as most people.
One year he said that he would like to go to Egypt again, if I were not afraid.

I answered that it had not been a very lucky place for us, but that personally I was not in the least afraid and longed to return there.

For as you know, I have, or think I have, ties with Egypt and indeed with all Africa.

Well, we went and had a very happy time, although I was always expecting to see old Harut come round the corner.
"After this it became a custom with us who, since George practically gave up shooting and attending the House of Lords, had nothing to keep us in England, to winter in Egypt.

We did this for five years in succession, living in a bungalow which we built at a place in the desert, not far from the banks of the Nile, about half way between Luxor which was the ancient Thebes, and Assouan.
George took a great fancy to this spot when first he saw it, and so in truth did I, for, like Memphis, it attracted me so much that I used to laugh and say I believed that once I had something to do with it.
"Now near to our villa that we called 'Ragnall' after this house, are the remains of a temple which were almost buried in the sand.
This temple George obtained permission to excavate.