"Of course I do."
"The tickets," she said demurely, "are three dollars—two weeks in advance——"
"I know that by experience."
"Oh! Then you have seen 'The Better Way'?"
"Certainly."
"Do you like—the show?"
"You are the best of it. Yes, I like it."
"It's my first chance. Did you know that? If poor little Graham hadn't been so ill, I'd never have had a look in. They wouldn't give me anything—except in a way I couldn't accept it. I tell you, Jack, I was desperate. There seemed to be absolutely no chance unless I—paid."
"Why didn't you write me and let me——"
"You know why."