“All right.”
“So long, and good luck.”
“So long.”
He saw by her appearance that she had resorted to her regular stimulant, and again he thought:
“Poor Cassie!”
Even in that moment when his own affairs weighed on him so heavily he thought of another.
What was that? One of the actors was speaking, and it was the speech that preceded his entrance.
The moment had arrived at last!
Frank nerved himself, and then he—entered.
For a single instant it seemed that his tongue was numb in his mouth and he would not be able to speak, and then, with grace and dignity he advanced down the center, smiling and delivering his first speech.