"No, not at present. At least, not very. I was rather, before I went back to the Pall Mall."
"Back? You were there before?"
"Yes."
He seemed to be thinking.
"Are you in the chorus?"
"I used to be. Now I have a small part."
"But not much in the way of salary?"
"Thirty-five shillings a week. But I have forty pounds a year of my own besides. I should be quite reasonably well off if it were not for the many little things I have to find for the theater. I ought not to complain. There are thousands of girls far worse off than I am."
"And you live—where?"
He made a note of the address.