Booth decided to spend the night in his own hotel room with Alice. Although Ella Starr"s open invitation tempted him, before meeting Alice, he"d rarely spent two nights in a row with the same woman. But why go back to the same cow if you owned the herd?
But Alice wasn"t there; she was probably still at the theater or the Oyster House.
He enjoyed these rare moments of solitude, drawing a hot bath and ordering up chilled wine with strawberries. He"d become addicted to strawberries during his first rehearsals of Richard III. Knowing the maligned king liked strawberries, he"d begun eating them onstage as part of the role, and now couldn"t get enough of them. But Richard wasn"t beckoning him right now. He had no compulsion to affect the aristocratic British accent, narrow his eyes, or hunch h
