“Sit down, sit down. But——” looking at her again, “have you been here before?”
“Never, my lord.”
“I have seen you somewhere.”
“I was an actress once. And I am a friend of John's.”
“Of John's? Then you are——”
“I am Glory.”
“Glory! And so we meet at last, dear lady! But I have seen you before. When he spoke of you, but did not bring you to see me, I took a stolen glance at the theatre myself——”
“I have left it, my lord.”
“Left it?”
And then she told him what she had done. His old eyes glistened and his head sank into his breast.