Polnay - ...... Alan, the husband, rather ridiculous, but Constance, the wife, a dear, though a little precious. Alan maintained he had been to Winchester; everyone in the district knew that it wasn't true. ....... Alan, square with small, forget-me-not, red-rimmed eyes ......... Constance appeared in a kimono, ......... she was 16 years older than I, her face slightly ravaged by the African sun, yet the profile sensitive, the hair black and the eyes hazel. She spoke in a strange affected voice and looked past you. ....... She and Alan came to Kenya on the Soldiers Settlement Scheme soon after WW1. Most of their fellow settlers had come in the same manner ...... she loved Africa far less than the other settlers, and admitted that she and Alan weren't too popular. Her lack of popularity was because she talked above most people's heads, which they considered as showing off; his was because being fundamentally timid he was too jocular and often downright rude. ..... seldom have I seen a more ill-assorted couple ........ wartime marriage ....... child, Martin, came only after 12 years of marriage.