‘If half of what he has written is true,’ said Florence, ‘your uncle’s youth must have been perfectly appalling. The moment we began to read he plunged straight into a most scandalous story of how he and my father were thrown out of a music-hall in 1887!’ ‘Why?’ ‘I decline to tell you why.’ It must have been something pretty bad. It took a lot to make them chuck people out of music-halls in 1887.
