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Lady Dovecourt was telling me the other day that they simply dare n't have an expert in to examine the Van Dykes at Columbey for fear of unwelcome disclosures . I wandered into the living room and pulled the sash to open the drapes . You feel the chill of loss , the drafty air , as if the walls of your soul have been knocked down in the night and you wake to realize that you are living in a vast exposed emptiness . The thing a potential expedition leader has to realize in the 1990s is that the media seeks , and even fabricates , controversy to sell papers . I feared to stir , for some instinct of prudence bade me lie still ; but the brute seemed to realize that there was now some change in me , for it raised its head . ( Most planned trips to Iran that were not postponed because of nuclear tensions were put on hold indefinitely after conflict erupted between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah in July . People put pallets on the floor and slept with fans blowing across wet towels to alleviate the humid misery ; or they flat-out suffered .