“Where do you play?”
“On the North Side.”
“What can you earn?”
“Well, the three of us—we are the three Le Ducs, you know—my wife and I, and Elmer, can get sixty a week for our turn.”
“You don't mean to say you have a son old enough to play with you?”
“Oh, no, no—we only call him Elmer Le Duc. We haven't been married so long as that. But——-” However, this was not business, and he checked the confidence that was never far from the end of his tongue nowadays.
“How long have you been on the stage?”
“Nearly three years.”
“What did you do before that?”
“I was at college.”