“Take it up and bow!” whispered the actor nearest him.
Ben was quick to accept the suggestion. He stooped and lifting the bouquet, bowed gracefully in the direction whence it had been thrown. This brought out a volley of applause.
Mr. Snodgrass felt proud of his connection with the hero of the evening.
“I know that boy,” he whispered to his next neighbor.
“Do you indeed? He is smart.”
“Yes; we are very intimate friends. He occupies a room in the same house with me.”
Patsy and Mike also were pleased with Ben’s success. They led the applause in the gallery, and were by no means backward in their expressions of satisfaction.
“I say, Mike, he’s a corker,” said Patsy.
“That’s so.”
“I wished I could act like him.”