Ha'penny

Authors: Jo Walton

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“He didn’t think he’d ever been to the Siddons. It tended to show highbrow and slightly depressing plays. The facade was painted to be enticing, but in the full sunlight it looked a little overblown. “Have you ever been inside here, sergeant?” he asked Royston.“Saw a French thing about a miser here a few years ago with my Mrs.,” Royston said. “Very funny.”The front doors to the theater were firmly closed. There was a man up a ladder fixing letters on the theater’s marquee. “Ask him where we go i...n,” Carmichael instructed Royston.“Oy,” Royston called, and when he had the man’s attention, “how do we get inside?”“Theater’s closed for rehearsals,” the man called down.“We’ve an appointment with Mr. Bannon,” Carmichael said.The man peered down at them. “Oh. Well, go around the back to the stage door, then.”“Where’s that?” Royston asked.“The stage door,” the man repeated, more loudly, in the tone used for addressing idiots and foreigners.MoreLess Read More Read Less