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PAGE 1 PAGE 1 Never Trust Appearance Rush hour in a provincial town is certainly not so busy as in London, but even so there are plenty of people moving about. Long, patient queues wait wearily for buses. Never-ending lines of cars are checked while red traffic lights change to green. Thousands of people are packed tightly in trains. The men’s faces are buried in their evening papers while women try in vain to knit. In a slow train it may well be an hour’s journey to their station. In the train, there is a Finnish youth of eighteen, Matti Arpola and this is his first visit to his friend Geoffrey in England. As there are several people standing, James Saxon is the only person he can see clearly. Matti decides that he is probably a typical Englishman, and he observes James carefully. ‘Can he really be typical? he thinks. ‘He has an umbrella, neatly rolled, but no bowler hat; in fact, no hat at all. Of course, he is reading about cricket and he is reserved and not interested in other people. But he is only of average height and his hair is not fair, but as dark as that of an Italian, and curly, with almost no parting. He is not smoking a pipe, and although we foreigners think that a real Englishman ought to have a moustache, he is clean-shaven. His nose is slightly crooked. What a serious face he has! He is frowning a little, but the eyes beneath his worried-looking forehead are sincere and honest. I don’t think he is intelligent. ‘His clothes are anything but smart. In fact, they are rather old, though well-brushed. Even though he is not wearing a wedding ring, he is probably married, with perhaps three children. His gloves are fur-lined and trousers well pressed. He keeps far too many things in his pockets, so his suit looks badly out of shape. What dull, old-fashioned leather shoes he is wearing. His briefcase is old and bulging, so that the zip-fastener does not close properly. There are the initials J.S. on it mean? Is his name John Smith?’ ‘I think he is