The Box of Delights
“‘He asked specially that the children should not talk to him either before or after the performance. He is giving two performances. He is an old man, and is suffering rather from his throat and doesn’t want to talk in addition to having the strain of the two performances.’ ‘But, it is Cole Hawlings, isn’t it?’ Kay asked: ‘the old man who was at Seekings last night?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ the Bishop said, ‘it’s Cole Hawlings.’ ‘Well, could you tell him from me,’ Kay said, ‘that I am so very glad that it’s all, all right?’ ‘Certainly, I will tell him that,’ the Bishop said. In spite of the Bishop’s words, Kay hoped very much to talk to Cole Hawlings.
Presently, they were all taken to the room in which the performance was to be given. Kay thought, ‘Now I’ll be able to speak to him,’ but in this he was disappointed. The room was a long room, once the guest room of the pilgrims; at the end of it there was a stage covered with a curtain.
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