They passed into the next room in which stood the director's bed, a few packs and baskets, and an old rattle-box of a piano.
Janina heard Yadzia play and agreed that she would give her lessons regularly between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, when her parents were not at home.
"When are you to make your first appearance at the theater?" asked
Cabinska.
"To-day, in the Gypsy Baron."
"Have you a costume?"
"Miss Falkowska promised to loan me one."
"Come with me. . . . Perhaps I'll find something for you. . . ."
They went into the room where the children slept with the nurse. Cabinska pulled out of a package a fairly well-preserved costume and gave it to Janina.
"You see, mademoiselle, we furnish the costumes, but since the members of the company prefer to have their own, because ours, of course, cannot be so very elegant, ours often lie here unused. . . . I will loan you this one."
"I also will have my own."