She unfurled it as she spoke, and put it into his hand.
"Make a breeze o' some sort," she said; "do, or I'll faint!"
Jim looked pleased and excited. He was fantastically dressed in the stage costume in which he had shortly to appear. Alison, partly sheltered by the curtain, could see well without being seen herself.
"The play is going splendid, Jim," said Louisa. "I'm ever so pleased."
"I am glad of that," replied Jim.
"I thought you would be. Well, I do feel a happy girl to-night."
"And when is it to be?" said Jim, bending down and looking earnestly into her face.
She flushed when he spoke to her, and immediately lowered her eyes.
"I aint made up my mind quite yet," she said.
"But you will?" he replied, in a voice full of solicitude.