in ‘Fun in a Teashop’? Why did I hang about upstage while you sang ‘Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay’? Do you remember my giving you a bag of buns when we were on the road at Bristol?”
“Yes, but—”
“Do you remember my giving you the ham sandwiches at Portsmouth?”
“Joe!”
“Do you remember my giving you a seed-cake at Birmingham? What did you think all that meant, if not that I loved you? Why, I was working up by degrees to telling you straight out when you suddenly went off and married that cane-sucking dude. That’s why I wouldn’t let my daughter marry this young chap, Wilson, unless he went into the profession. She’s an artist—”
“She certainly is, Joe.”
“You’ve seen her? Where?”
“At the Auditorium just now. But, Joe, you mustn’t stand in the way