He was much older than she, she acknowledged. But from early on she had recognized in herself an affinity for older men. “I wasn’t amused or interested in people my own age,” she said. “What attracted me was much older men and I felt very at ease with them.” She had never felt wholly comfortable with members of her own generation. “Luckily for me, the war came, so then it sort of didn’t matter, and I immediately spent time with people much older than myself and found myself quite happily entertaining whoever it might be.”
