"No one I have ever met had the same genius for leaving someone else holding the baby as Teddy Adrian."
"He has other kinds of genius though, surely," Lucy ventured.
"He has talent, yes."
"Do you still see him?" asked Wragg, still a little dazzled to be getting first-hand news of Olympus.
"Only by accident. When my brother died we gave up the house that our parents had had, and there were no more family gatherings."
"And you've never seen him on the stage?"
"Never."
"And you didn't even go a sixpenny bus-ride into Larborough to see him play tonight."
"I did not. I told you, the theatre bores me inexpressibly."
"But it's Shakespeare."