“You would, I mean your friend would, I imagine, like a favourable Press?”
“Why, yes.”
“Audience?”
“Do you mean any kind of audience?”
“I am afraid they will be mostly women, though, of course, I can get you a certain number of male students. But the audience, I can promise you, will be well disposed. Three or four encores at least.”
“Yes, then, both Press and audience.”
He scribbled a little more.
“An inclusive estimate?” he asked.
“Please. You mean by inclusive...?”
“Everything,” he said impressively; “the hall, the printing, the advertisements, a few invitations, the preliminary paragraphs, the audience, the critics’ articles. And not only the critics’ notices, but the presence of the critics themselves,” he added.