The quarrel melted away with the arrival of a letter from the Prime Minister saying that the King had appointed David Governor of the "Bahamas"... And I saw him come into my room in elation to bring me the glad news. They had found him a post at last...

It was a territory we had never reached in our travels, and far removed from the war and its clamor...

The Prime Minister attached to his letter a word of apology, since this was all that lay in his power... And so we set about preparing for the journey, waiting for the first steamer to carry us to our new post.

We left Lisbon at the beginning of August 1940... I gazed with a certain regret at the continent of Europe receding from our sight little by little... and I felt as though I were drawing away from the center of things, or from the ground on which I had begun to trace the plans of our new life.

The responsibility on David's shoul-ders was great, and it fell to me, as his wife, to carry a share of that burden.

On the morning of August 17 we arrived at "Nassau," and here were the furnishings of the Governor's house — our furnishings, that is... As we stood on the ship's deck, David pointed to a house on the shoulder of a green hill and said: There is our residence, my dear. To my eyes it looked splendid, ringed by a wall of green palm trees... But the heat that began to scorch our faces and bodies was more than could be borne... The citizens did their best to make our reception official and engaging, and the wives of the officials took pains over the decoration of the house, scattering flowers in every room; but that did not hide how badly the walls

within needed fresh paint.

The winter of 1940–1941 was a period of settling down and tranquility after the war; and by