Friendship and character, for one surely depends upon the other. In return, Irving treated Loveday with a trust and affection which was never so apparent in his relations with Stoker.’įriendship, therefore, is my theme. ‘If his acquiescence in every word or whim his Chief expressed was something of a joke among the company, it sprang from a lifelong devotion to his friend and from an inherent belief that all he said or did was divinely inspired. In his monumental 1951 biography of his grandfather, Laurence Irving said of H.I.’s stagemanager, Harry Loveday: This interchange brings to mind H.I., sitting in the Lyceum stalls surrounded by nervous lieutenants, giving his ever-forthright opinions on scenery, music, props., furniture, costumes, to which they would all readily concur and he, mischievously, would then reverse his opinion just to see them attempt, like Polonius, a similarly swift U-turn. Polonius By th’ mass and ’tis, like a camel indeed. Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius My lord, the Queen would speak with you, and presently. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.This is an extended version of a talk given at the Society’s Buffet Luncheon held at the Savile Club on 27 October 2006. One with a taste for destroying her life. Especially when Callan has her own homicidal little secret to deal with. In this world where secrets are sacrosanct and grudges are remembered, finding the truth will be near impossible.

Walking away isn’t an option, but if she stays too long, the entity will find its next victim. Driven to find out where she comes from, Callan’s trapped in a race for life and death. To cover their tracks, they’d lied about everything. Both actually came from this magical world, but left before Callan was born. There, she accidentally discovers a secret her parents had kept until the day they died. A psycho in medieval armor kidnaps her and she ends up in a magical world. Her thirteenth foster assignment should be routine. By the time she’s sixteen, it’s ensured her being shunted from one foster family to another. The entity living inside Callan’s soul orphaned her at age eleven.

The Vanished Knight by M. Gerrick