“Take care you don't find out that there's more to know than you think. What is this wonderful play of his?”
“I haven't seen it yet; I don't think it's finished. It's something from the Spanish or the Russian, I'm not sure. I'm to put it into shape when he's done the translation. He wants me to put my name to it as the adaptor.”
“Wonder he hasn't asked you to wear his clothes. Has he got any money?”
“Of course he has money. How can you run a theatrical company without money?”
“Have you seen the money?”
“He doesn't carry it about with him in a bag.”
“I should have thought your ambition to be to act, not to manage. Managers are to be had cheap enough. Why should he want some one who knows nothing about it?”
“I'm going to act. I'm going to play a leading part.”
“Great Scott!”
“He'll do the management really himself; I shall simply advise him. But he doesn't want his own name to appear.”