Only there will be
a new 'ingenue' in Miss Malone's place. People can't break iron
rules in my company. Maybe they could in Mounet-Sully's, but they
can't in mine!"
"What rule did she break?" Canby's voice was unsteady. "What
rule?"
"Yes," Tinker urged. "Tell us what it was."
"After rehearsal," the star began with dignity, "I was--I--" He
paused. "I was disappointed in her."
"Ye-es?" drawled Tinker encouragingly.
Potter sent him a vicious glance, but continued: "I had hopes of
her intelligence--as an actress. She seemed to have, also, a
fairly attractive personality. I felt some little--ah, interest
in her, personally. There is something about her that--" Again
he paused. "I talked to her--about her part--at length; and
finally I--ah--said I should be glad to walk home with her, as
it was after dark. She said no, she wouldn't let me take so
much trouble, because she lived almost at the other end of
Brooklyn. It seemed to me that--ah, she is very young--you both
probably noticed that--so I said I would--that is, I offered to
drive her home in a taxicab. She thanked me, but said she
couldn't.
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