This said, in a section about two exiled cousins living a privileged life in America, who visit Kabul to reclaim their family home, he offers some nice asides about the condescending attitudes of some "tourist" returnees.
The cousins come from privileged backgrounds and grew up nearly 10,000 miles away from Bucharest (they also asked that their home country be kept confidential, for fear of being identified).
Brought up in a privileged, Liberal household (Lytton was his second cousin; his father edited the Spectator), Strachey became a Labour MP in 1929 but then moved violently to the left.
Motivated by his cousin Theodore, who continued to urge young men of privileged backgrounds to enter public service, Roosevelt looked for an opportunity to launch a career in politics.
Forever missed by those privileged to share his long journey - devoted old and new friends, cousins, sister-in-law, nieces, nephews - and Phyllis, loving companion of 60 years.
(Naturally, the most salacious story a privileged, protected 13-year-old girl could think of was someone making out with their cousin).
The charm of being Southern, above all the charm of being with the "right" people in the holiest of places and wanting things to stay just as they are -- this is a constant theme, and the dearest, doomed wish of the privileged few: the group of young people in "The Business Venture," the five "kissing" cousins traveling in Europe in "The Cousins".
Her cousin Elizabeth is white but poor; she doesn't have the inheritance that Dido is privileged with.
"I felt very privileged".
