"It would be a terrible thing of him to do to me, if I were playing and he wasn't," she said, nodding sagely. "Do you, like, think he'd be convinced by that????????"

Meanwhile, she was already contemplating ways to get the theatre at their disposal.

"If he was here it'd be easy to convince him," she continued, "but since he's back in your world, that's harder??????"

Nina was good, but she was not yet that good.