“What did you think of my protégée?” she inquired. “I’m collecting opinions on her.”
“The little Colter girl? She isn’t as sniffy as she appears at first sight.”
“Her name isn’t Colter. And I don’t know how you can judge. First sight is all that you had of her.”
“Not so, fair lady. She passed me in the hallway as I was waiting for a taxi to come along. I could see her nerving herself up to say something and finally she said it.”
“Well, what was it?”
“Nothing important. Just that she was sorry she couldn’t sing for me and that some other time she would. But she said it quite pleasantly. She hasn’t a bad voice.”
“Effect of Lesson the First,” commented the actress.
“What are you doing with that young person, Gloria? Working some of your white magic on her?”
“Just remaking life a little for her,” replied the other offhandedly. “This is part of it.”
She fluttered the note-paper on which she had been writing.