Chapter 7
"It’s really, really odd," Milly said. She had said this half a dozen times already. "I mean there must be dozens of people he could take. So he obviously likes you enough to invite you, but then why wait six weeks to see you again?"
These were exactly my thoughts.
"I suppose he could just be very busy," Milly continued. "He is on stage every night. It probably gets a bit tiring."
Hamlet came to the end of its run in a month, I knew that. I had asked him if he liked Hamlet, meaning the character, and he had smiled and said: "he pays the bills."
I had never liked him much myself. Hamlet, I mean. I know everyone gets deeply into the play, and there were bits of it I found interesting. But overall I had much preferred The Tempest, which we had done for GCSEs. It was only half t
