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There , in the infamous " promenade " - - a wide horseshoe-shaped bar and lobby space behind the first tier of gallery seats , with an open view of the auditorium and the stage - - high-priced prostitutes and elegantly-dressed gentlemen would make their assignations . He made short and daring excursions in order to do this but he was ever careful to leave his retreat open , in case he should have sudden need of it . If you are uncertain about what constitutes plagiarism , or are unsure of how to cite the work of others properly in your writing , see me . Because this is a course on the British novel , the reading load for this course is necessarily heavy . Oleron was aware of confused angry shoutings ; he gathered that a number of people wanted to lynch somebody or other . Two years before , at the opening of Lady Windermere 's Fan at the same theatre , Wilde , along with one of the characters in the play , had worn a green carnation , an open acknowledgement of the homosexual sub-culture to which Wilde and many of his friends belonged . On the night after that , and on the following night , and for many nights and days , so many that he began to be uncertain about the count of them , Oleron , courting , cajoling , neglecting , threatening , beseeching , eaten out with unappeased curiosity and regardless that his life was becoming one consuming passion and desire , continued his search for the unknown co-numerator of his abode . He still used his hands as blinkers , and his brain was very confused . And a compromise arrangement that had been reached - - to let the open solicitations continue , but to screen off the promenade from the auditorium with a low barrier - - did not last long : on the first night after the barrier was installed , it was torn down in protest by a gang of young , fashionable , gentlemen-about-town , led by the young Winston Churchill . The woodcuts were to be done by Robert Seymour , a celebrated illustrator , and the series was intended to jumpstart Seymour 's flagging career - - but instead it marked the birth of the sensational publishing phenomenon that was Charles Dickens .