Natalie Smythe-Forbes

Editor of the Nairobi Star. A Brisk woman she is concerned about politics in Kenya but rather blind to the affairs of the Native African affairs.
Whilst she was being interviewed she said:
“The Carlyle people were a strange, rather unhealthy lot. Hypatia, poor dear, was sick some of the time. Indisposed in the mornings, I think. Yes. Carlyle I scarcely saw—quite a nervous young man who liked his whiskey. And Sir Aubrey, though attractive and virile, had dealings with people not at all of his station. I especially recall that Taan Kaur, a slimy little woman, was at Hampton House a lot. A mere tea-peddler, associating with a peer! She’s still in Nairobi.
Perhaps she would tell you what they talked about—I’m sure I don’t want to know. The doctor, Huston, was very aloof.”
She  remembers Jackson Elias as a strong-willed, rather rude man of genius. She suggests talking to Roger Corydon at Government House, and also to Captain Montgomery of the African Rifles.