The conversation was being shouted from room to room.
“No, do you?”
“Connie is going as Lady Macbeth.”
“What, why she’s not historical, she’s Shakespearean,” Polly protested.
“Connie insists she was a real woman, and that Shakespeare knew all about her. Anyway, she says she’s going to walk in her sleep and say: ‘Out, damned spot.’”
“Are you really, Con?” Lois raised her voice so that it could be heard at the other end of the corridor.
“Am I really what?” came Connie’s reply.
“Going as Lady Macbeth at the party?”
“Of course I am. She was a real person.”
“Well, she wasn’t very well known,” Angela added her voice to the others.