"That you'd go on--go on with the plays--with the acting."
The violet eyes expressed wonder. "Go on?" she inquired,
"Go on?" Then in a tone that made Clelie sob and Garvey's
eyes fill she said:
"What else is there to live for, now?"
"I'm--I'm glad for his sake," stammered Garvey.
He was disconcerted by her smile. She made no other
answer--aloud. For _his_ sake! For her own sake, rather.
What other life had she but the life _he_ had given her? "And
he knew I would," she said to herself. "He said that merely to
let me know he left me entirely free. How like him, to do that!"
At the hotel she shut herself in; she saw no one, not even
Clelie, for nearly a week. Then--she went to work--and worked
like a reincarnation of Brent.
She inquired for Sperry, found that he and Rod had separated
as they no longer needed each other; she went into a sort of
partnership with Sperry for the production of Brent's
plays--he, an excellent coach as well as stage director,
helping her to finish her formal education for the stage. She
played with success half a dozen of the already produced Brent
plays. At the beginning of her second season she appeared
in what has become her most famous part--_Roxy_ in Brent's last
play, "The Scandal." With the opening night her career of
triumph began. Even the critics--therefore, not unnaturally,
suspicious of an actress who was so beautiful, so beautifully
dressed, so well supported, and so well outfitted with
actor-proof plays even the critics conceded her ability.
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