asked fiercely c don t be angry don t think me a wet blanket said earnestly c you know i love you better than anything else in all the wide world and you know i would do anything to help you on but we have been up in london eight months now and what nearer are you to what you wish for than you were when we first left home not one step you have run up a lot of bills that you can never pay you have spent money working up interest here and making friends there and i am afraid if you give this that it will only be a dead failure you know le had but little opinion of your gifts and said freely that you would never do anything on the stage dear angel i don t say this to hurt it is best to look facts straight in the face each time you played with i have watched you carefully and i always came away with the same feeling that though you are brilliant and fascinating in ordinary life picturesque in looks and and elegant in figure yet the moment you step the money sense on to the stage your brilliancy and your charm all go and you become stiff awkward and lifeless yet you kept all this to yourself said in a quiet tone because at first i thought it was the the strangeness the want of familiarity with it all the other replied as long as our own money lasts father would not wish you to stop your efforts you have a right to go on but when it comes to taking a large sum of money from a little jew then it is time to speak well you have spoken and now nothing more need be said once for all i won t be interfered with in this matter i must have a it is necessary to my career my father cannot or will not give it to me can and gladly will i have already accepted his generous offer and he is now in treaty for the theatre and your explanation to father and mother asked none is necessary except to tell the bare truth said with dignity c i am not ashamed of being helped by he is my friend my true friend i have never been ashamed of my friends and if i succeed i shall be still because i shall have justified his belief in me the money sense � and if you fail asked involuntarily for a remembrance came back to her of how she had asked the great le her candid opinion of her young sister a beautiful creature my dear was le s frank comment but stupid as a mule and dense as an owl one can neither drive nor lead her she will never make an it isn t in her c i shall not fail cried her eyes all in a blaze but if i do you will have to go home to said l and then how will all your debts be paid my debts said bursting into a laugh are so that i don t think you need worry about them your black silk said your last � the little blue gown and the one you had for � hats � shoes c oh do stop why go into it all the girl cried impatiently what is the good of going on look here i have quite made up my mind to one thing i won t go home if all else fails i shall marry chapter vi as an was a dead failure never perhaps in all the history of the modern stage had any young woman beautiful well dressed and elegant after six months training under several of the first teachers of the day proved herself such a complete and entire stick when put to the serious test of a public performance the house was fairly filled � mostly with paper � and the more important were conspicuous by their absence miss le sat in the front rows of the and took a keen and deadly interest in the performance from beginning to end in the royal box was all alone in his glory and in of rare and costly flowers in the opposite box was with mrs who beamed upon the scene as who should say now that a daughter of mine has gone upon the stage a new era has dawned for dramatic art was suffering agonies of anxiety and dread the lavish who � the money sense himself on doing things well had generously their box with a couple of superb to be offered to at a suitable moment but the heavily flowers seemed to strike a wrong note and their beauty upon s sensitive nature they seemed to be making sure too soon and she would have liked to have put them away quite at the back of the box so that they might be quietly out of sight if they were obviously not required but mrs who was troubled by no as to the possibility of a daughter of hers being anything but a success liked the feeling of sitting in a london theatre the observed of all and would not allow them to be touched so there sat sick at heart and full of she tried to take an intelligent interest in the play which was one very frequently for the purpose of showing off the merits � to say nothing of the � of young ladies on their promotion but she was only really conscious of one thing which was that while the rest of the company were making gallant efforts to carry off a success was simply a hideous and ghastly failure every time that she came on felt herself going hot and cold every word that she spoke seemed to the anxious listener like a every move o the money 