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-me - that it would run for more than a few weeks, so we just waved each other good-bye and said: See 'you at the beginning of the month! It was when we found that it was going on indefinitely that I just had to find an excuse to come to England.'
'Wasn't Atlanta sufficient excuse?'
'Not for my pop! The family are very snooty about Atlanta, but Pop is the worst of the bunch. When he' can bring himself to mention her he refers to her as "that young actress acquaintance of yours". You see, Pop is Carradine the Third, and Atlanta's father is very much Shergold the First. A little grocery store on Main Street, as a matter of fact. And the salt of the earth, in case you're interested. And of course Atlanta hadn't really done very much, back in the States. I mean, on the stage. This is her first big success. That is why she didn't want to break her contract and come back home. As a matter of fact it'll be quite a fight to get her back home at all. She says we never appreciated her.'
'So you took to research.'
'I had ,to think of something that I could do only in London, you see. And I had done some research at college. So the B.M. seemed to be what you call 'my cup of tea. I could enjoy myself and yet show my father that I was really working, both at the same time.'
'Yes. It's as nice an alibi as ever I met with. Why the Peasants' Revolt, by the way?