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'No. Oh, no. Just being an automaton. Saying the lines and doing the business and thinking of something else all the time.'
'If all reports are true that's no unusual matter where actors are concerned.'
'Oh, in moderation, no. Johnny Garson can tell you how much paper there is in the house what time his is sobbing his heart out on someone's' lap. But that's different from being "away" for half an act. Do you realize that Geoffrey had turned his son out of the house, quarreled with his mistress, and accused his wife of having an affair with his best friend, all without being aware of it?'
'What was he aware of?'
'He says he had decided to lease his Park Lane flat to Dolly Dacre and buy that the second house at Richmond that the Latimers are giving up because he has got that Governor's appointment. He had thought about the lack of bathrooms and decided that the little upstairs room with the eighteenth-century Chinese paper would make a very good one. They could remove the beautiful paper and use it to decorate that dull little room downstairs at the back. It's full of Victorian panelling, the dull little room. He had also reviewed the drainage, wondered if he had enough money to take the old tiling off and replacing it, and speculated as to what kind of cooking range they had in the kitchen. He had just decided to get rid of the shrubbery at he gate when he found himself face to face with me, on a stage, in the
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