11 AMERICA CALLINGEmma had heard Wayne’s father’s suggestion about going to America, but she had just taken it as a compliment, as she knew that he probably knew nothing about how show business worked. Wayne was less experienced in many ways than Emma, so he took his father’s idea more seriously. However, they had hardly mentioned it. One evening Sam phoned to ask how they were, as he did most weeks and his mother did at least twice a week, and said that some of the boys in the village had been telling him how they had entertained them in the Red Dragon. He asked them if they had got anywhere with their plans for going to America.
“Woa, Dad, hold your horses! You made the suggestion and we thought that I was a great idea for a bit of fun, but we took it that you were joking. We didn’t say
