"The All-England hockey 'half. "
"And I suppose that helped Othello a lot."
"It helped the intervals, I assure you."
"Didn't you want to see Othello?"
"Not us! We were dying to go to Irma Ireland's new film- Flaming Barriers. It sounds very sultry but actually, I believe, it's just a good clean forest fire. But my parents' idea of a night out is the theatre and a box of chocolates for the intervals. We couldn't disappoint the old dears."
"Did they like it?"
"Oh, they loved it. They spent the whole of supper talking about it."
"You're a fine pair to call anyone 'heathen, " Lucy observed.
"Come to tea with the Seniors this afternoon," Beau said.
Lucy said hastily that she was going out to tea.