The Adventures of Sally

y morning and drove to the Hotel Statler. Having ascertained that Gerald was stopping in the hotel and ha

in. But the real cause of her depression was the fact that there had been a lack of enthusiasm in Gerald's greeting over the telephone just now.

ing. It would, no doubt, be a very different Gerald who would presently bound into the dining-roo

h was visible through the open door of the dining-room, came in and stood peering about as though in search of someone. The momentary sight she had had of t

rse, your man of affairs and vast interests flits about all over the place. At any rate, here he was, and she called him. And, after

ilty conscience. Presently he would have to break to her the news that he had become engaged to be married without her

ever since then. He's been ill, poor old dear. I've come here to se

n't ope

o pull yourself together

atres because of this infernal Spanish influenza. Nothing has

read the papers. Oh, Fi

e company all on edge. I've had t

ve you got to

ore c

ll-you remember he was at college with me-suggested that I should come down an

ad all the mone

hese fellows like to let

a good

lay's

Faucitt said. But

ple face regi

she throws her weight about all the time. The o

n, a fuss about

w. It got mislaid. I'm cer

d Sally wonderingly. Love seemed to have

y woman... blames the first perso

trailed off int

said Elsa Dol

id. She's only in the first act, and hasn't much to say, except 'Did you ring, madam?' and things like that. But it's the way she says 'em! Sally, that girl's a genius! The greatest character

Fill. And will you kindly inform me how you

blushed

o you

Faucitt

ll.

el

ly human," ar

dsome admission. You've

ged for the better si

. If this was due, as Mr. Faucitt had suggested, to the influence of

you sometime,'

meet her

I've got to see Bunbury. I t

s Bun

he is breakfasting in his

ttle marvel! It's lucky they'

r Gerald, no longer hurt by his manner over the te

tes later

he reached the table, "I'm so sorr

mise of his voice over the telephone. A sort of n

is influenza about? They let people jam against one another all day in the stores. If that doesn't hurt them why should it hurt them to go to theatres? Besides, it's all in

. "Poor Mr. Faucitt had it quite badl

citt's illness or by the fact that Sally, after delay, had a

eces. They're sick of rehearsing and rehearsing when nobody knows if we'll ever open. They were all keyed up a wee

f-pity was a thing she particularly disliked in a man. Her vanity, too, was hurt. It was obvious that her arrival, so far from acting as a magic restorative, had effected nothing. She could not help rem

't handle it. Elsa Doland could play it a thousand times better. I wrote Elsa in a few lines the other day, and the Hobson woman went right up in the air. You don't know what

her throw u

keep the play on if she wasn't in it? He would close the show in a second, and where would I be th

at the conclusion that what she was resenting was the fact that Gerald was trying to get the advantages of two attitudes simultaneously. A man in trouble may either be the captain of his soul and superior to pity, or he may be a broken thing for a woman to pet and comfort. Gera

to keep her jollying along all the time, so for good

up with a jerk.

a handicap being

in pathos. "Good God! It's tough! Her

g her entire outlook. She had come off the train tired and gritty, and what seemed the general out-of-jointness of the world was entirely due, she decided, to the fact that she had not had a bath and that her hair

"I've been a brute, but

awful time,"

you never told me you

I'm glad

oor fish? And why didn't you ask me

enjoy y

we can consider my lecture on foreign travel fini

mind that Providence had invented Spanish influenza purely with a view to wrecking his future. But now he seemed less aloof, more ope

th, looking at his watch, "I

ears

nly way of getting through th

y I've unpacked an

t the thea

ng for the lift to ta