In his later years, he lived alone in a cottage in a remote fastness on the island of Alderney. He was a tall man, with flowing white hair, a deep voice and a big white beard. He answered a knock on his cottage door one afternoon to discover two young Americans, complete strangers to him, who announced that they represented the Jehovah's Witnesses. White immediately responded, "I am Jehovah - how are we doing?" In telling this story, as he often did, White liked to conclude by saying that their response had been to "run like hell".
