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`` I replied that such would be contrary to my instructions . `` ` Oh , all right , ' he answered . ` I 'd like to know who 's going to the Royalty to-night , that 's all . It 's seven o'clock already . ' `` An idea occurred to me . If the sub-editor of a paper does n't know whom to send to a theatre , it must mean that the post of dramatic critic on that paper is for some reason or another vacant . `` ` Oh , that 's all right , ' I told him .