"I shouldn't have thought it," he said. "How did you happen to get such a fine chance as that?"
"I knew one of the actors—Harry Bertram—and the one who played the boy's part regularly was taken sick. I only played about four or five weeks all together."
"Still that makes you a regular actor. Do you think of trying to get a place at Daly's or Palmer's?"
"Oh, no. I don't suppose I should stand any show. I could only take a boy's part."
"Well, we can talk over our plans later. I don't mind confessing that I am hungry. How about yourself?"
"I think I could eat some supper."
"Come along, then. I'll take you to a good restaurant. It's some way off, but it is near my room."
"All right."
The two rose, and leaving the park, walked up Broadway, past the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the Hoffman House, and the St. James, till they reached a well-known eating-house known as Smith & Green's, situated on the east side of Broadway, between Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-Eighth Streets.
"Come in here. I won't take you to Delmonico's, a little further down, as you haven't a private bank to draw from. This is a nice restaurant and moderate in its charges."