CHAPTER XVIII
[AFTER THE PLAY]
"Well?"
"Decided success."
"Yes, great and unquestionable."
"How devilish lucky Gercourt is!"
"It is a capital beginning."
"Bah! he never wrote the thing."
"Why, that idea came into my head the moment I saw it must succeed."
"If it had only had moderate success, one might have believed that Gercourt really wrote the play."