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arrived & he & his wife came to lunch, she is quite nice but rather determined, small, neat & well dressed & a lady. He looked
very smart. They brought back a lot of plants from Karachi which I planted after tea in the garden with Mohamed Khalil.

7th Nov. Monday

Court in the morning. A lot of cases from 9 till 12, then office work. Went to the garden in afternoon & planted the rest of the
trees etc from Karachi. M went back early as Abdel Rahman Zayani's wife came to tea, a great compliment as the poor lady
has never before been allowed to visit a European house. Mrs Parke came to tea to meet her & was very pleased & interested
with it all. Cool day, a shamaal. The days of the P R visit were awfully hot & damp. Mohamed Ali Zainal called to say good
bye in the morning having called in a special steamer to take him to Bombay. He brought a really lovely pearl ring, a huge
pearl on a plain platinum ring & wanted to give it to M - I had to refuse but I should have liked to accept it very much - nor
would there have been any harm from him but one cant do it out here. He asked us to stay with us in Paris on the way home &
that I hope we shall do.

Tuesday 8th November