Therefore he had some chance of retaining them.
"Yes, I will show you the celebrities." He pointed out the leading critics and the blue stockings of the day.

His eyes roamed over the stalls.

"Do you see the man with the broad face and the short whiskers in the fourth row?
The man who looks just a little too like a country gentleman to be one?
That is Sir Chichester Splay.

He made a fortune in a murky town of Lancashire, and, thirsting for colour, came up to London determined to back a musical comedy.

That is the way the craving for colour takes them in the North.