"The way he's got it, there's
an interruption before the tea comes, and it isn't brought in."
"But she's ordered it! If it doesn't come the audience will
wonder--"
"No," said Tinker. "They won't think of that. They won't hear
her order it."
"Then for heaven's sake, why has he put it in? I wrote this
play to begin right in the story--"
"That's the trouble. They never hear the beginning. They're
slamming seats, taking off wraps, looking round to see who's
there. That's why we used to begin plays with servants dusting
and 'Well-I-never-half-past-nine-and-the-young-master-not-yet-
risen!"
"I wrote it to begin with a garden scene," Canby protested,
unheeding. "Why--"
"He's changed this act a good deal."
"But I wrote--"
"He never uses garden sets. Not intimate enough; and they're a
nuisance to light. I wouldn't worry about it."
"But it changes the whole signifi--"
"Well, talk to him about it," said Tinker, adding lifelessly,
"I wouldn't argue with him much, though. I never knew anybody
do anything with him that way yet."
Miss Ellsling, on the stage, seemed to be supplementing this
remark.
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