But the old woman tells a long story, silencing her wide-eyed visitors with the tale of a diplomat named Miles and his disastrous stint in Saudi Arabia.
According to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, between 1929 and 1932, the U.S. Consul in Saigon was a diplomat named Henry Samuel Waterman, who was Jewish.
The United States made a tentative attempt to establish diplomatic relations with Bulgaria in 1901, but the diplomat named by Washington was rejected by the Bulgarian Government, since he was based in Istanbul rather than in the principality.
Kim's husband, another diplomat named Kang Tae Yun, had flown back to Pyonyang the day after his wife was killed.
The mother, a diplomat named Elizabeth Rood, wanted to take her children, then age 11, 9 and 6, to the American Embassy in Moscow where she was scheduled for a three-year tour.
The New York Raptors - a hockey team for children and adults with developmental disabilities - will take to the ice next fall, courtesy of a diplomat named Michael J. Dwyer.
He was born in Constantinople in either 1819 or 1830, and his father was a diplomat named Şekip Pasha (in contemporary English Shekib Pasha).
Mr Smith identifies the disturbance as a teleport and a diplomat named Ranius (or Rani) (played by Ronnie Corbett) appears.
These represented a palace library, a temple library and-apparently unique in the world at the time-two private libraries, one belonging to a diplomat named Rapanu.