Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1926 i mahi a Acton hei "kaitiaki motuhake" i te wā o te
whakatakoto whānui, apolitical rite ia, a ka mau i tona tohu. I te Oketopa i tangohia e ia tetahi whare i Paris, i te 29 Quai de Bourbon, a na Pavel Tchelitcheff tana whakaahua i peita. I te neke i waenga i Paris me Raanana i roto i nga tau e whai ake nei, i whai a Acton ki te rapu i tona reo hei kaituhi. I te tau 1927 ka timata ia ki te mahi i runga i te pukapuka, me te pukapuka tuatoru o nga waiata, "Five Saints and an Appendix", i puta i te timatanga o te tau e whai ake nei. I whai ake tenei i tetahi korero pakiwaitara, "Cornelian", i te Poutu-te-rangi. I te Hōngongoi i mahi a Acton hei tangata pai i te marena o Evelyn Waugh ki te Honore Evelyn Gardner. Ko te "Decline and Fall" a Waugh he whakatapunga ki a Acton 'i roto i te Homage and Affection', engari i te wa i puta ai te pukapuka a Acton ake i te Oketopa 1928, i whakaritea ki te "Decline and Fall" e nga kaiwhakawhiwhi penei i a Cyril Connolly.