Status Updates From Pray for the Wanderer

I was at the play last night. I shall be there again tonight - indeed I foresee that unless I watch myself I shall be there every night of the run. May I come to your dressing-room tonight to thank you for your matchless performance? And, if you have nothing else to do, will you have supper with me?

He did not read his brother's novels and plays, though proud of his success, but he hated having to face, however lightly, the knowledge that a member of his family was frequently guilty of impropriety in pint.