Plate 3: Wilson

‘He received us stiffly, for he was of the sober honest down-right Englishmen, to whom Storrs was suspect, if only for his artistic sense: and his contact with me in Cairo had been short and sharp, a difference of opinion as to whether native clothes were an indignity for a British officer. I had called them uncomfortable merely: to him they were wrong. However Wilson in spite of his personal feelings was all for the game . . . Besides we were his guests, and he had all the splendid hospitality of the East in his spirit.’