The Flower Girl by Maggie Ford

Author:Maggie Ford [Ford, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473573246
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Chapter Eighteen

By the end of January Emma had money enough to open a small bank account and see her mother all right – as soon as she found time to visit. She’d sent money by postal order, but it wasn’t the same as going in person.

It wasn’t easy finding the time, she and Theo appearing every night at the Pavilion, and then on to the Cambridge straight after, two venues each night – something he said he’d never do – plus the endless rehearsing that he maintained was essential. He was right of course – no magician dare let his work slip – besides which he was forever devising new illusions in which she was required to take part.

So far, they’d done ten nights at the Pavilion and the Cambridge, with Jack Simmons’s promise of greater things to come from Theo’s appearance before royalty not having materialised as yet.

‘Be patient, he tells me,’ Theo complained. ‘How long is one expected to be patient? If he doesn’t look out I shall find myself another theatrical agent. He needs to keep in mind that I have performed before royalty, no less, and if he cannot take up on that …’

The obvious threat drifting off into silence, Emma allowed him a smile of mild agreement. She’d come to know Theo’s mercurial nature, one minute filled with ego, the next morose and easily ruffled. That was when he’d take to his room and not come out, and she knew he’d be having himself more than one drink, for he’d become maudlin and benevolent.

One thing though, he hadn’t touched her since that night after the King’s proposal. She wasn’t sure whether to be glad or sorry. It had been a strange, wonderful experience, leaving her uncertain of herself.

As for His Majesty’s proposal, far from being flattered, she now saw it as outrageous. Had she taken up the offer, she could have discovered herself entirely forgotten; and how embarrassed she’d have been, faced by his equerry’s cold reception. She wasn’t sure about Theo’s jealousy, but he was right to have been annoyed. He was always right.

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