Lynn Ruth Miller, the septuagenarian, stripping granny from San Francisco, says that a member of the audience found her better digs when she heard that she was staying in a remote Edinburgh flat without heating.
Writing in a blog on the Fringe web site Miller recalls:
"I was living in a flat miles from the center of town with no hot water or heat. I told a member of the audience at one of my shows about my predicament and she, her husband and her friend worked together to find me a new place to stay that was closer, cleaner and warmer. Within the hour I was re-settled in a B&B across the way where I am bathed, warmed and happy as an American clam."
Miller says it was one of a series of small acts of kindness that, in spite of the August deluge that left her "wet and discouraged", made this year's Fringe "by far the sweetest year of the four that I have performed here."