A Decent Interval (2013)
“He would have slept even later, had he not been woken by his mobile ringing.
‘Hello?’ he said a little blearily.
‘Charles?’ ‘Yes.’ He just had time to register the foreign accent before the caller identified himself. ‘It’s Tibor Pincus.’ ‘Good to hear you. Gosh, is this more work? Do you want me to do a single-handed re-enactment of the Battle of the Somme, playing the part of all the casualties?’ ‘No, I’m sorry, Charles, it’s not work. It might be fun, though.’ ‘Oh?’ ‘Listen, you remember when we did the Battle of Naseby?’ ‘Etched on my memory. How could I ever forget?’ ‘And that day we were talking about Portie …?’ ‘“Portie”?’ ‘Yes, you remember. The actor, Portie.’ It came back. ‘The one who went to the States. Made a packet over there.’ ‘I’m not sure how big the packet he made was. But, anyway, he’s over in London at the moment and he gave me a call.’ ‘Right.’ ‘Basically, I’m meeting him for lunch at Joe Allen tomorrow and he asked if I could get “any of the old drinking crowd out”
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