ones; yet she showed her liking for the writings of Gibran Khalil Gibran and Tawfiq al-Hakim, and then for reading Miss Rose Ghorayeb's articles in "The Woman's Voice." She told me that Miss Ghorayeb's skill in teaching her at school, and her simple modern style of writing, deserved the credit for leading her to read Arabic books.

I asked her whether she does any housework, and she said: "From time to time I may arrange the flowers in their vases or make a cake, but I do no steady household work — sometimes I do not even make my bed; not because I am negligent, but because my mother is responsible for running the house, and we have two maids who attend to most of its tasks."

And she said of her view of life:

"Life is sweet, and as long as I keep smiling at it, it will always keep smiling at me. I am not at all afraid of the future. My confidence in myself is great enough that with it I can face the accidents of fate, good and evil!"

• When a man declares that he is sure of his wife, he means exactly what he says. But when a woman declares that she is sure of her husband, she means that she is sure of herself. — Francis de Croisset —

• Great is love, but friendship is greater. And verily I say: there is nothing in the universe nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship. — Oscar Wilde —

• The difference between the noble man and the

envier is that the first wishes for the death of the one of whom he is jealous, while the other wishes that the one he envies may live, so that he can take his revenge on him. — Stendhal —

• Eagles eat the eyes of the dead at a time when the dead have no need of them. Flatterers, however, kill the souls of the living and blind their eyes. — Epictetus —