10TH DECEMBER 1982
Malcolm and Kitty Muggeridge joined the Church ten days ago. Christopher Howse meets them in their Sussex home.
Kitty Muggeridge's aunt, Beatrice Webb, was not pleased when Malcolm started, upon his return from Russia in 1932, to write of the horrors and starvation there. He ought to "go off and join the Roman Catholic Church and confess and be absolved," she said, huffily.
Fifty years later that is what they have both done; and they are very happy about it. Kitty was sitting on the sofa away from the fire, propped with cushions and dispensing endless cups of tea from a pot cocooned in a thick cosy which snapped up with a metal clasp, like Miss Murdstone's purse. She was looking very beautiful, with her intent features framed by her steel grey hair. She wore buckled blue suede shoes, grey woollen stockings, a thick red skirt and jersey, with a black neckerchief.
