But on account of the poem and its being vin du pays I got it.
Dear Mother, I wish you were here now and enjoying all these beautiful things.

I got you a present in Cairo that will amuse you.

Had I stayed on in Cairo I should have had much and many marks of distinction from the English.

Lady Gower-Browne, who found out from them that I had called and that they had done nothing except to be rude, raised a great hue and cry and everything changed.

What she said of me I don't know but it made a most amusing difference.