A dressmaker was in attendance to make alterations in the dresses.
Every employée was ordered to go into the auditorium.
All the cast had been requested to attend for extra rehearsal before Muriel had been electrified by being asked to take the part.
There was hardly any hitch.
She was not only letter-perfect, but every gesture even to stage business had been carefully drilled in her; and her own rare receptivity and lightning-like perception saved her from many errors.
She had acted before in the little theatre at Idleminster, but the difference from that to the big, stately grandeur of the ‘Coliseum’ was appalling.
But Keene never took his eyes off her.
Before going on he told her that she was to turn to him for every direction without fear.
“No matter how slight your doubt, let me know.”
And she obeyed him to the letter.