"Rac" to "Ric", 1960-03-30

"My dear Ric, I am back here in Johannesburg after a very odd trip. Nothing ever happens here normally. My stay in Maseru was not quite as I represented to you in the letter I sent from there, for I felt it was not safe to express myself freely after I had found my letter of credit spread out on the bed when I knew I had left it in its envelope in the handbag beside it. I liked my host, Gordon Hector, very much. He was not very intelligent and not very well-bred and quite obtuse, but he was doing his work well and had a sense of public duty and patriotism..."