'How many acts will it be?'
'Four.'
'And have you settled on the name?'
'Yes, as a matter of fact I have settled on a name; but don't you go giving it away. It's rather an original name. It would do if I developed the comedy interest just the same and just as well as if I made the chief point the tragic part. It's going to be called You Never Know. Good name, isn't it?'
'It's a splendid name. But isn't it a tiny bit like something else?'
'How unsympathetic you are! The fact is you don't understand. That's what it is.'
'Oh, I do sympathise immensely, Bruce, and I'm sure you'll have a great success. What fun it will be! Are you going to work at it this afternoon?'
'Why, no! not this afternoon. I'm rather tired out with thinking. I think I shall go and look in at the club.'
CHAPTER XVIII
Hyacinth Waits