AT our meeting on June 24, David Howe, sometime teacher, talked with brilliance and charm on the lives of Prime Ministers' wives or partners. Those few unmarried had relationships, their lives made or unmade. The job of spouse, if job it may be called, has changed over the years from privileged privacy, sometimes amounting to neglect, to 100 percent exposure with wall-to-wall guardians and floor-to-ceiling media, little space for friend and family. Yet to friend and family ultimately they must hope to return. David's style was the informed and informing anecdote. There were many and often entertaining.