Half a Rogue

Richard Warrington’s cigar has lost its magic: his leading lady threatens to quit unless he changes the climax of his play. Then a tearful stranger appears at his table with a two-dollar dinner bill—and begs him not to send for anyone.

In a tucked-away restaurant off Broadway, New York playwright Warrington is trying to salvage a production that opens in two weeks without surrendering his work to a star’s whims. His solitary dinner takes a sharper turn when Katherine Challoner, unable to pay her bill, accepts his help—then recoils at the idea of anyone being sent to her home. Her distress is plainly about more than a lost purse, and Warrington’s dry wit cannot smooth away the unease. What is Katherine so desperate to keep hidden?

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