It is they who, with their love and tenacity for generations and generations, have been keeping watching the homes which are the eternal harbor in men's hearts.

We rode past men praying to Mecca, children playing in the sea and - occasionally - an ageing white woman with a strapping black man half her age.

Yet the house in the mountains, the house by the sea, and the friends in the city are not neglected, nor are these young women found less attractive because of their special accomplishments.