"Let's fill up the time by going to a music-hall," suggested Reg.
"Don't keep them here, my boy."
"What, no music-halls!"
"Well there is a small one run by Tommy Hudson, but it is used as a theatre. Adelaide people don't believe in leg-shows and ballets."
"But I thought they had the Gaiety people out here, and did a big business."
"Quite true, but it caused such an extra-ordinary number of divorce and breach of promise cases that they have not repeated it."
"Have they a decent theatre, then?"
"Yes, a capital one, run by good old Wybert Reeve, and as the Governor goes there to-night, there will be an extra crush."
"Does he influence the public?"
"Rather, my boy. I have seen the stalls and dress-circle quite empty one night and crowded the next to overflowing, all on account of the presence of the Governor and his wife."