ABSTRACT
Now that Rosalinde had joined him, Tedder proved easier to capture for an evening by Cairo’s high society. On 23 October they agreed to be guests of honour at a dinner arranged by two of that society’s most distinguished members: Sir Thomas Russell Pasha, commandant of the police force, and his formidable wife Dorothea, of whom it was said no visiting artist dared refuse her command to perform at the music concerts she organised, and which Tedder had attended whenever he could spare the time. During dinner, he was handed a note. Turning to Dorothea, he asked her to keep an eye on the time for him. At precisely 10 p.m., he announced to the Russells and their other guests that a thousand British guns were opening fire at that moment.1
