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It was the middle of the afternoon, in the heat, in Africa; he knew at once where he was. Not even in the suspended seconds between sleep and waking was he left behind in the house in Wiltshire, lying, now, deep in the snow of a hard winter. The road to the village would be blocked, the dog ran over the soft fields breathing like a dragon…the kernel of the house was warm with oil-fired heating and the light from red shades, the silky colours of Olivia ’s things—the rugs, cherry-and satin-wood pieces—and the red earth pots, bits of beadwork, the two fine carvings they once found in the Congo. A few days ago he was in that house, packing to leave in the flat progression of practical matters by which decision is broken up into reality. Ifyou have any trouble with the boiler, for heaven s’ sake let Mackie look at it before you send to town.—What a pity you gave away your shorts.—There s’ no knowing ifI’ll be anywhere where I could dare appear in shorts, any more.—But your waist measurement hasn ’t changed by so much as halfan inch—I know by your pyjama trousers, I use exactly the same measurementfor new elastic as I always did.—  \nThree months before, Adamson Mweta stood outside a steak house in Kensington and said to him, Of course you’ll come back to us now! He had driven home, slowing down on the empty road that led through the fullness of a deserted summer twilight, at last, to the house. Housing estates overrun villages all over England, but here the process had been reversed; the house had once been a manor (Olivia thought that, even earlier, it had been a priory) but in the nineteenth century the village was depopulated by the drift to industrialized towns, lost its autonomy, and died; the shop-cum-post-office had closed, the cottages had fallen down; the woods and meadows took over the fields, only a few houses remained, to be bought by the people whose longing for country life discounted the inconvenience of isolation. As Olivia said, it ought to have been a sad-feeling place but it wasn’t; there was instead a renewal: the country had come back, bringing the reassurance of stubborn peace and fecundity, a beginning again. And they were only two-hours-and-a-bit from London, their daughters and their friends. He had kept up, since he finally left Africa ten years ago, a close contact with Adamson Mweta and the other leaders of the African independence movement. He spent a great deal of time going back and forth to London to advise them when they conferred with the Colonial Office, and to do what he could to smooth the way for various delegations that came to petition against the old constitution and to negotiate independence for their country. It was there, in this Central African territory, that he had been a colonial servant until the settlers succeeded in having him recalled and deported for his support of the People ’s Independence Party. He said to his wife,“Mweta ’s invited me to come back as their guest.”  \n“Well, you ought to be at the Independence celebrations, if anyone is. That’s marvellous.” She used to make packages of sandwiches for Mweta to take with him when he cycled for miles about Gala province at weekends, speaking at meetings.  \nHe said to Ada","cbCaiq74laYbSbKV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq74laYbSbKV","pdf",1476505,316,"English","# Part One\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n# Part Two\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n# Part Three\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n# Part Four\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n# Part Five\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21","[{\"question\":\"Who is the main figure introduced at the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"The story centers on a man who wakes in a Wiltshire house and immediately recognizes where he is. 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