Hester and her mother slept
in the "Winter's Tale," Janet and Mary in "Cymbeline." Robert and Gregory
were "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" for the time being, and Horace and Jack
lay in the "Comedy of Errors." Kink and Diogenes were somewhere at the
back, and the Slowcoach was in the yard, surrounded by motor-cars.
At the next table at dinner--in a beautiful old room with green matting on
the floor and a huge open fireplace--sat an old gentleman with white hair
and bright eyes behind very luminous spectacles, and from the tone in which
he talked to the waiter they guessed him to be an American. After dinner he
smoked cigarettes in an immensely long holder of amber and gold, and now
and then smiled at the children.
They were all rather tired, and went quickly to bed. Robert, who, you
remember, had been so contemptuous of the Shakespeare Hotel blankets and
sheets, slept a full ten hours; never, indeed, can a Gentleman of Verona
have passed a better night; and the others expressed no grief at having to
lie in proper beds once more.
When they came down to breakfast the next morning, they found a letter
addressed to
Mr. KINK' S CHILDREN'S PARTY.
Shakespeare Hotel,
Stratford-on-Avon.
Robert looked at it, and threw it down.
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