"I take that as a compliment."
"Can't you actors take your friends in free?" asked Angelica, whose rule was to make all she could out of her acquaintances.
"I haven't been an actor long enough to find out."
"I should consider it such a favor. I would get all my friends to go."
"On the same terms?" asked Bert with a smile.
"No. They can pay."
Bert did secure a complimentary ticket for Miss Stubbs, who boasted everywhere that she was intimately acquainted with one of the leading actors in "The Streets of Gotham," and that he was really very attentive to her.
"What would my friends at Lakeville say if they knew my new business?" thought Bert. "I should be glad if Percy Marlowe could see me on the stage."
He determined, however, not to say anything in his letters about this new engagement, for, though he had been successful thus far, his success and popularity might not last.
"Did you see the notice of your play in the morning paper, Mr. Barton?" asked Miss Angelica.