''they were engaged, he used to go and see her [Mary Rose] in the King’s and he said he could always pick out my mother, when all the girls were standing waiting to come out, he could always see her heart beating because she was nervous. Poor thing...that was one of the few romantic things he ever said about her...I know with the Half Past Eight Company that she did tour with them, certainly she used to talk about going to Aberdeen, and Glasgow, to Dundee.''

Jane Gillespie, Oral History Participant