During the second act I was as electric as during the first, but now I allowed myself to see over the foot-lights and recognise people I knew. I even overheard one girl say to another, "why, Johnnie Gregory is handsome in that Van Dyke!"
"Yes, he has a fine profile ... he looks quite distinguished."
Before the curtain for the third act, Jack Travers worked his way back through the props to my dressing room....
"Sh! I've brought a nip of something real for you, Johnnie!"
"Bill already has given me some. It's enough! I don't want any more!—wait till the last act, and then I'll take it!
"I don't want it now! Do you hear!" I almost screamed, as he mischievously insisted.
The bell rang for the third curtain....
The news had come for Iistral that his rich uncle in America had died and left him a fortune ... now his family would try and have him adjudged insane, in order to lay hands on the wealth for their own uses....