And for a drinke offering, thou ſhalt offer the third part of an Hyn of wine, for a ſweete ſauour vnto the Lord.

The 40-year-old man and his 20-year-old girlfriend were involved in a May-September romance.

I know that the sound of it moved me more even than her words, it was so very human - so very womanly.

But is there some vaguely uncivilisable aspect of the Middle Eastern mind?