"But I believe the public should be taught."
"Yes, I know. I get all of you 'uplift boys' sooner or later. Teach them all you like, but learn your trade so thoroughly that they will have no idea that they are being taught. That is the function of the artist-playwright. What do you do besides write plays?"
"Just at present I drive a cab," Jarvis answered simply.
"You don't say? How does that happen?"
"I was up against it for money, and I took this to oblige a friend cabby who has rheumatism."
" 'Pon my word! How long have you been at it?"
"This is my fifth day."
"Business good?" The manager's eyes twinkled. Jarvis smiled gravely.
"I have been wishing it would rain," he confessed.
"When do you write?"