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Although I could not foresee it then, the contacts with architects and designers made at the time were to be most useful when I began designing professionally. So were the friendships formed with the patrons of art in the city, some of whom I have identified. It was all a plus. 

Nonetheless, essentially, "civic virtue" was a stop-gap. What I wanted and needed was to be engaged in creative work. The feeling was becoming a compulsion.

While he could not realize the depth of this, Leon sensed that I was restless. For my sake, I believe, he found reasons for traveling more frequently, taking me with him. We went to Hawaii several times but more often to Europe. In London, I met the English branch of his family who spell the name lebus. I found them a lively, charming cultured clan, Herman (later Sir Herman) and ethel, Louis and Edith Anne, "E.A." 

Travelling through Europe with Leon was an