Note 1 — Chapter I

I find the following in my diary of 11th December 1891: “Anne called on Princess Nazleh who told her that she did not think the Khedive Abbas would hear of Arabi’s return. Others say the contrary. She repeated what we already knew from her that after Tel-el-Kebir Tewfik ordered two guillotines from France for the execution of the ‘rebels.’ . . . Dufferin told Princess Nazleh once in an unguarded moment that, if he had earlier known the kind of man Tewfik was, he would have made the other (meaning Arabi) Khedive.”