"I do speak, Electra."
"You do?"
"I have spoken a little. I can't do it yet in the way he wants. What he wants is money."
"We have sent him money," she agreed. "The Delta Club gave a series of plays last winter and voted him the proceeds. The first was for labor in America. The second for free Russia."
"Yes, it pours in on him. It's his enormous magnetism."
"It's his cause."
She seemed to have reached something now that warmed her into life, and he took advantage of that kindling.
"Rose is his daughter," he reminded her. "She is very beautiful, very sad. She is worthy of such a father."
"Rose? Is that her actual name?"
"Yes. They are Americans, though since her childhood she has lived in France."