"Can't say yet. I gotta talk to the act but I'd say your chances were pretty good."
I almost swooned with happiness. The break I'd been waiting for all my life was here at last. The golden apples were about ready to drop into my lap.
hen Mystiffio finished his routine I took Morry backstage. I found Alice.
"Here she is, Morry," I said. "And she's just as nice as she looks." I shoved Alice toward him. "Be nice, baby," I hissed in her ear.
Morry took one of her little hands and his eyes were interested.
"I kinda like the act," he said. "If you could find time to be nice to me I might like it a whole lot."
Alice takes her hand back as if it had accidentally brushed something slimy.
"I'm sorry but I don't go with the act," she snapped. "There are some things worth more to me than three meals a day and a paycheck."