not as easy as that Tommy. Neil and Claxton will be putting their own show on and they’ll use their own dancers.’
‘You could tell ’em you’d work cheaper if you could appear at Central Pier.’
‘Tommy, you know that’s not possible. And, anyway, Stella and me are booked for Shanklin for the summer . . .’ The sentence filtered out. She hadn’t intended letting that piece of devastating information slip out.
He stopped half-way through a stride and pulled her to a halt. ‘Shanklin?’ he cried, as if someone had said he owed them a thousand pounds. Sadie glumly nodded her head, and wished she’d kept her big mouth closed. ‘You mean, Shanklin in the Isle of Wight?’ To Tommy that could have been Australia. ‘Bloody hellfire!’
They started walking again but much slower. ‘I won’t see you all summer, then?’ He shook his head with despair. ‘It’ll be six months or more before I see you.’
‘I’ll be back first week in October,’ she promised, hoping the freezing tide would sweep over her and take her away.
‘Hellfire Sade!’
‘Or maybe I’ll even be able to get back in the last week of September. It depends how it’s going. They’ve got an option on the last week.’
Tommy had stepped up his pace and she was struggling to keep up with him. ‘It’s a good date for us, Tommy,’ she said. ‘Stella’s thrilled we’re going there.’
‘Sod Stella.’
‘Oh, Tommy,’ she cried, pulling up in her tracks. He walked on a few more paces before turning round to look at her.
‘Well, she’ll be seeing you and I won’t, will I?’
‘I know, but we have to look on the bright side. October isn’t too far away now,’ she lied.
‘Sadie, it’s seven months.’
‘Yes, but it’s only a short season from the first week in June when we open, and we only rehearse one week before and not the usual two.’
‘It doesn’t matter how you juggle it,’ he said wearily. ‘Seven months is seven months. I can’t take time off to visit you, and even when I take my holidays I can’t afford to go all the way to the Isle of flamin’ Wight.’
They drifted down Queen Street. ‘I’ll have to go there, Tommy, it’s a good run and other dates Stella’s got in the book amount to seven months, like you said.’ She was being firm with Tommy now. ‘I can help you with the fare if you’ll say you will come down.’
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