"A week."
"Have you had any experience?"
"A short season out west in a stock company."
"Good!"
"And I love work."
"Do not build any great hopes," he warned, "for your chance depends upon the whim of another woman. But you have my word and my good offices that something shall be put in your way. You will come at ten?" drawing on his gloves.
"Promptly."
"I believe that we both have been wise to-night; though it is true that a man dislikes being a fool and having it made manifest."
"And how about the woman scorned?" with an enchanting smile.
"It is kismet," he acknowledged.