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“... And after all, it’s size that counts, you know. If there are problems in writing about sex, Anne Cumming hasn’t been discouraged by them. The Love Quest is the second volume of her memoirs; it begins in 1952, and finds the former debutante, actress and intelligence officer in mid-career, with one marriage behind her and her second looking ...”

“... in Tangier, until he became one of its most famous expatriate inhabitants, much described. Anne Cumming, the author of Men on Five Dollars a Day wrote: ‘During our “psychedelic summer” of 1961 when the entire Beat generation of writers rampaged through Tangier, trying every known drug and eating bat stew, Paul remained the quiet cult figure ...”

“... in Belgium, to be treated for alcoholism. Reilly began a relationship with a woman called Anne (surname unknown, possibly a colleague). He left Port Arthur at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Anne may have gone with him (they may even have got married) but she soon drops out of view and he’s making ...”

“... run "by the sort of men who called each other Wolly, Bunter, Biffy and Blinker. Mansfield Smith Cumming, the original ‘C.’, thought espionage ‘a capital sport’, and is memorably described by Phillip Knightley in his recently reissued study of 20th-century spying, The Second Oldest Profession:* He wore a gold-rimmed monocle, wrote only in green ...”