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You are Nell Achebe, second cover for Lady Macbeth at a repertory theatre that has been three weeks from closing since before you were born.
You know the part better than the woman playing it. Everyone knows you know it. That is not how any of this works — an understudy goes on only if the principal cannot, and Delphine Marr is sixty-two, magnificent, and has not missed a performance in thirty-one years.
Over one season you will find out exactly what you are willing to be ready for, and discover that the answer matters less than you thought and costs more.
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Half past ten. The tape on the floor says where the castle is. Delphine's mug is on the windowsill, made at twenty-five past by somebody being helpful, going cold.