"What can she do? . . . Miss Orlowska has the backing of the management."
Mimi, immediately after the play, went to the dressing-room of the chorus where she found Janina still agitated.
"How good you are!" cried the actress effusively.
"What I did was right . . . that's all," Janina replied.
"Take a trip with us to Bielany, won't you?" begged Mimi.
"When? . . . And who are going?"
"We're going within the next few days. There will be Wawrzecki, I, a certain author, a very jolly chap, whose play we are to present, Majkowska, Topolski and you. You must come with us!"
After lengthy persuasions and kisses, which Janina received indifferently, she finally agreed to accompany them.
They waited for Wawrzecki and afterwards all went together to a pastry shop for tea, taking with them also Topolski, who there composed a circular addressed to the whole company requesting them to appear without fail at the morrow's rehearsal, punctually at ten o'clock.