They were still in the Middle East, where hatred burns and vengeance beckons.
The French, though, could see through that to the hatred that burned beneath, ever since the deaths of both his father and his first wife, after brutal torture, in French prisons.
While the flame of misogyny may seem warm in A Writer's Notebook and his early creative output, it is nothing in comparison to the heated hatred that burns throughout much of Maugham's post-1915 creative production.
Deeper in the shooter's heart than we can imagine burned a hatred for those who occupied a different world than he could aspire to, who ignored him in what he imagined was their self-satisfied happiness.
It also failed dismally in achieving its objective, as Hamas survived and the local population's hatred of their arrogant oppressors burned as bright as the fires which consumed their homes.
The hells are terrible places of torture and suffering, in which beings who are dominated by anger and hatred are cut to pieces, burned, frozen, and tormented by demonic apparitions that are in fact projections of their own distorted minds.
Again, the wait for justice continues, and feeds the hatred that burns in the hearts of those already smarting from a sense of second class citizenry.
But no one, it seems, knew or could believe that inside the mind of the strapping 6ft 2in teenager burned a deep-seated and irrational hatred of a popular teacher whose life he was to cut brutally short.
Police in Gateshead have arrested six people on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after a video appearing to show Qur'ans being burned appeared on the internet.
Encouraged by the ayatollahs and by hatred spread in schools, Iranians have routinely shouted "Death to America" and burned the American flag.
The rage and self-hatred born out of bad decisions and bad luck have long since burned into a clear-hearted attempt to record the cruelties Lindhout endured.
