"
Canby rose in agitation, quite unable, for that moment, to
speak; but Tinker, still leaning forward, gazing intently at the
face of the actor, made a low, long-drawn sound of wonder and
affirmation, the slow exclamation of a man comprehending what
amazes him. "So that's it!"
"Besides being intensely ordinary," said Potter, with
superiority, "I discovered that she is deceitful. That had
nothing whatever to do with my decision to leave the stage." He
whirled upon Tinker suddenly, and shouted: "No matter what you
think!"
"No," said Tinker. "No matter."
Potter laughed. "Talbot Potter leaves the stage because a
little 'ingenue' understudy tries to break the rules of his
company! Likely, isn't it?"
"Looks so," said old Tinker.
"Does it?" retorted Potter with rising fury. "Then I'll tell you,
since you seem not to know it, that I'm not going to leave the
stage! Can't a man give vent to his feelings once in his life
without being caught up and held to it by every old school-teacher
that's stumbled into the 'show-business' by mistake! We're going
right on with this play, I tell you; we rehearse it to-morrow
morning just the same as if this hadn't happened.
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