CHAPTER 8The success of the Red Cross Exhibition, the anticipation of Speech Day at Southbridge, the Barchester première (as these things are called) of Mayflower Madness, starring Hash Gobbet with a false forehead and a real wart specially grafted onto his face for the filming as Oliver Cromwell and Glamora Tudor as Queen Henrietta Maria with whom Cromwell was in love and nearly sailed on the Mayflower to escape a passion incompatible with his political views only John Bunyan would read The Pilgrim’s Progress in modernized English to him at Ye Charles’s Hedde on Plymouth Hoe so that he went to sleep and missed the boat, the gentle interest of that part of Barsetshire in Colin Keith’s moonstruck condition, not to speak of the Bishop’s broadcast on Sweden entitled “Germans in Human Shape,”
