"I know it," cried Mrs. Anderson. "Oh, I am so glad you came! Now, don't look so downcast, John; you will be very proud of me when you see me on the stage."
"Humph! Well, we shall see."
Al rose to go.
"You will not change your mind again, Mrs. Anderson?" he asked, a little apprehensively.
"No, no," laughed the lady. "I have never changed it at all. I shall be there."
CHAPTER VI.
ANOTHER ROCK AHEAD.
Mr. Anderson accompanied Al to the door.
"I would have granted almost any other request you might have made with more willingness," he said. "I have a strongly rooted objection to my wife appearing on the stage."
"I am very sorry, sir," said Al. "But, perhaps, as Mrs. Anderson says, you will feel differently when you see her."