ABSTRACT
Trevor does not get the job, but editor Richard Hall says he might be considered later if Grundy can get experience on a decent British provincial newspaper. Trevor takes interest in what is happening in Rhodesia, which is moving towards illegal Independence from Britain. He spends time with an old school friend and tours pubs and coffee bars aimlessly in Soho, lost and seeing no future for himself as a journalist. To his delight, a letter arrives on the mat at Blandford Square in mid-January telling him that things have changed and how long would it take for him to expedite himself from his present position. Trevor replies and says three months and then tells his mother, who says everyone has left her and now even her son is going away. On April 1 Trevor signs a two-year contract with a Lonrho representative in London and is told to read Heart of Darkness by Conrad for it contains all the information he will need to know about Africa. On April 27 he is taken to the airport by his mother, father and sister and her two sons, and Lovene hands him a book from Alan called The Lonely African but says she forget to pick up an accompanying letter from Alan so would send it back to him and he could post it to Africa when Trevor provides an address. He puts his arms around his mother, not realising he will never see her again.
