Yes, it was easier. There was a day when Robinson invited her to hostess a party of foreign buyers, first on a tour of the Crystos island foundry and then for lunch at the city showrooms, when, unlike that first business dinner party, he seemed at pains to emphasise her role as something more than a decorative background figure. By leaving the conducting of individual buyers to her, he seemed to acknowledge for the first time that she knew enough about the glass industry to be informative on it. In an informal after-lunch speech he even told his hearers that Crystos was fortunate in his choice of a wife! As If the accolades was supposed to be given to him.
When a world-famous prima donna visited the Teatro Fenice for a single performance of Traviata, he made up a small party which did no
