I cannot imagine Sir Oswald Mosley playing the part he
has played in public life without Lady Cynthia. Wealth, wilfulness, provocativeness, brilliance, were combined in both of them, and they appeared to the public eye as two parts of one personality. But their dualities were complementary. For a popular audience Lady Cynthia had far more drawing power than her husband. I remember the storm of approval with which she was received on one occasion by a mass meeting of working men and women, addressed by herself and her husband, at Middlesbrough. But she had not Sir Oswald's capacity for exposition, and she was not effect:vc in the House of Commons. Many persons who knew her only by repute supposed her to be no more than a beautiful woman with a clever tongue, rather fond of the limelight. But that is to do her less than justice. She had a clear strong brain, her interest in politics was unquestionably genuine, and there was not the least need for her to seek the limelight. It was bound to fall on her,
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