They had all of them revived the story of how her father had run away from Bath with the beautiful Annabel Winslow.
But apparently they had forgotten, if they had ever known that the handsome actor and the beautiful Society girl had produced a child.
Doctor Lesley had brought Shimona all the newspapers so that she could read the glowing obituaries that had been written about her father.
There had been a long column in The Times and another in The Post besides a news report about the financial state of Drury Lane now that the actor who had brought in the audiences was no longer there.
One correspondent had written,
“Something will have to be done, but it appears that no one in the management has any idea what it should be.”
There were many sketches in the newspapers of Beau Bardsley i
