I was having a happy time in Eldoret. Ethel was a great teacher and I still remember many of the ways in which she taught us our alphabet and reading.   She had a little group of pre-school children who spent the morning with her. My father was courting the Matron of the local hospital, Irene Smith, known as Rene.  She was 5’9” with black hair in a page-boy style and very good looking. She was good company for my father, played tennis and golf and later learnt to play bridge. They became engaged and in 1937, when they married, I was their bridesmaid.

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