The Crisis

Abstract

It may well be that AB returned to Europe in the late spring of 1920 with his mind turned towards those exciting horizons opened up by his Paris visit the previous autumn. Soon after arriving in Brussels he wrote to Courmont that a turning point in his career might be at hand, that he might be about to switch his activities to a less profitable but more worth-while field: he wished he could be quite alone for a few days to think things out. We have nothing more precise than this. But for much of the summer he was constantly on the move about Europe so that the Aden office had no idea from where his next letter was likely to come. He seemed to be seeing a good deal of Mme Jules Siegfried. It is possible that this was the one period of his life when his preoccupation with his business was only intermittent.