pit-of-the-theatre

Updated: May 9, 2025

None of the old-fashioned pit-of-the-theatre scrum for passport inspection, on the smoking-room deck. And there, on the quay, were staff officers and R.T.O.'s awaiting him with a great car no worry about Customs or luggage or anything everything done for him by eager young men without his bidding and he had thought nothing of it.

William John Locke - The Mountebank