It is highly important that we should have one unofficial observer, who is neither Jew nor Moslem, and who has no private interest to serve.

But I warn you, what is likely to happen this morning will be risky." I looked at the scar on his cheek, and the campaign ribbons, and the attitude of absolute poise that can only be attained by years of familiarity with danger.
"Why do you soldiers always act like nursemaids toward civilians ?" I asked him.

"We're bone of your bone." He laughed.
"Entrenched privilege! If we let you know too much you'd think too little of us!" We stopped at a Jew's store outside the city for suspenders, and then made the circuit outside the walls in a whirlwind of dust, stopping only at each gate to get reports from the officers commanding companies drawn up in readiness to march in and police the city.
"It's all over the place that disaster of some sort is going to happen today," said Sir Louis.

"It only needs a hatful of rumours to set Jerusalemites at one another's throats.

But we're ready for them.