The Powers and Maxine

"[...] "To Di?" "No, I have Number 13 with her." "Thirteen! Unlucky number." "Any number is lucky that gives me a chance with her. The next one, coming now, is with Mrs. George Allendale." "Oh, yes, the actor manager's wife. She goes everywhere; and Lord Mountstuart likes theatrical celebrities. This house ought to be very serious and political, but we have every sort of creature-provided it's an amusing, or successful, or good-looking one. By the way, used Maxine de Renzie to come here, when she was acting in London at George Allendale's theatre? That was before Di and I arrived on the scene, you remember." "I remember. Oh, yes, she came here. It was in this house I met her first, off the stage, I believe." [...]."