"When Miss Lowell traveled.. her wardrobe was always carefully sorted and packed for speed and efficiency: gowns in one suitcase, toilet articles in another, underwear in a third.

"The trunk containing the underwear once slipped into the harbor at Piraeus when the landing net broke, and Miss Lowell stood on the Greek pier wringing her hands and moaning, 'My drawers, oh, my drawers!' She had the harbor dredged and recovered them."