It's twice as good a chance as it was yesterday,
thanks to you. You've given me such beautiful new things to do
and such beautiful new things to say. How I'll work at it! After
rehearsal this afternoon I'll learn every word of it in the
tunnel before I get to my station in Brooklyn. That's funny,
too, isn't it; the first time I've ever been to New York I go
and board over in Brooklyn! But it's a beautiful place to study,
and by the time I get home I'll know the lines and have all the
rest of the time for the real work: trying to make myself into a
faraway picture of the adorable girl you had in your mind when
you wrote it. You see--"
She checked herself again. "Oh! Oh!" she said, half-laughing,
half-ashamed. "I've never talked so much in my life! You see it
seems to me that the whole world has just burst into bloom!"
She radiated a happiness that was almost tangible; it was a glow
so real it seemed to warm and light that dingy old passageway.
Certainly it warmed and lighted the young man who stood there
with her. For him, too, the whole world was transfigured, and
life just an orchard to walk through in perpetual April morning.
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