Laferrière began to laugh.
There are two men who possess a great advantage for authors in two very different functions, with two very different types of talent: Laferrière is the one, and Mélingue the other. From the very hour when they have first listened to the reading of a work, to the moment when the curtain goes up, they have but one thought: to collect, weld together and work in anything that might be useful to the work. Their searching eyes are not distracted for one instant; not for a second do their minds wander from the point. They think of their parts while they are walking, eating and drinking; they dream of them while they sleep. I shall return to Mélingue more than once in reference to this quality, one of the most precious a great actor can possess.
Laferrière has plenty of pertinacity.
"Well," I said to him, "it is a good idea and I will adopt it."
"Will you really?"
"Yes."
"You promise me?"
"I promise you."
"Very well then.."