"I've been having a hard fight for it, Tony—but I'm pulling through. Music has helped me, and the memory of our friendship, and the thought that you're trying to understand me and forgive me."
"Well, I wish him luck," said Awdrey; "what a good thing von Gleichroeder found him out!"
"Yes, he'll have his chance now—his chance of a decent life."
"Nonsense, Tony! That's not what he's after—fame and dibs, my dear girl, fame and dibs."
"He told me he was accepting von Gleichroeder's offer because he wanted to be—good."
"Well, London's a queer place to go for that."
"He's gone there to work. He had no chance here."
"More chance than he'll have there—you bet he's painted the place pretty red by this time."
Her sister was about to retort sharply, when a man suddenly came round the corner of the house towards them.