PITY THE POOR GHOST—that is, Mr. Cleveland Amory, whose `editorial
assistance and advice in connection with the publi- cation of [the Duchess of Windsor's] memoirs' are no longer required. 'The Duchess,' he says, 'has whims more than opinions, and it is damned hard on a ghost-writer' I am not surprised. Some time ago I had lunch with this ghost in a London club, and I must say I found him highly amusing, and very independent-minded too. Not, I should have said, the ghost to stomach a lady's whims and fancies. But if the Duchess has had too much of a ghost-writer, Mr. Truman evidently tised to be without the services of a ghost-reader. Of course, he says, I would never have signed the instrument cutting off lend-lease if 1 had read it. Ghosts undoubtedly have their mundane uses. They are not offended by being offered money; the trouble is that they are usually underpaid. A celebrated novelist had his latest book favourably reviewed by an acquaintance, to whom he sent a cheque for a guinea or two, crossed `Pay ghost.' That was thoughtful, and I only hope the spectre got it.
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