"Could it be managed without exciting comment in the company?"
"Easily. I have thought it all out. I have an assistant stage manager who plays a small part. By increasing his duties behind, I can in a perfectly natural way make it necessary to engage somebody to play his bit. I shall not appear in the matter."
"I have had no experience," I objected.
"I will coach you."
Could I resist that?
"It would be better to put in an operative."
"Oh, no! No one but you!"
"Well, I'll manage it somehow," I said.
She sighed with relief, and started that moment to coach me.
"You are a thug, a desperate character. You appear in only one scene, a cellar dimly lighted, so you will not be conspicuous from in front. You must practise speaking in a throaty, husky growl."