XIX

It reminded me forcibly of Episode III in The Perils of Pamela . How often had I not sat in the sixpenny seats, eating a twopenny bar of milk chocolate, and yearning for similar things to happen to me. Well, they had happened with a vengeance. And somehow it was not nearly so amusing as I had imagined. It’s all very well on the screen⁠—you have the comfortable knowledge that there’s bound to be an episode IV . But in real life there was absolutely no guarantee that Anna the Adventuress might not terminate abruptly at the end of any episode.