"Not on the stage. He used to spend his holidays with us when he was a boy." Miss Lux ran her fork once more through the heap on her plate and decided that there was nothing further worth her attention.
" Used to spend the holidays! At your house? "
"Yes, he went to school with my brother."
"Good heavens! how absolutely incredible!"
"What is incredible about it?"
"I mean, one just doesn't think of Edward Adrian as being an ordinary person that people know. Just a schoolboy like anyone else."
"A very horrid little boy."
"Oh, no!"
"A quite revolting little boy. Always watching himself in mirrors. And possessed of a remarkable talent for getting the best of everything that was going." She sounded calm, and clinical, and detached.
"Oh, Catherine, you shatter me."