Majkowska, who was just then passing, whispered, pointing to Rosinska: "What a scarecrow! What conventional acting! She is incapable of producing even a single accent of true feeling!"
Behind Janina some gentleman in a high hat was pressing the hands of one of the chorus girls.
"Things are turning out fine, for to-morrow, there will be no rehearsal and we can go to Bielany in the afternoon. Wait for us at your home, we will drop in and take you along with us," whispered Mimi.
"I also am going on that outing," said Kotlicki, "you are going too, aren't you?"
"Probably . . . but if I couldn't go it would be just as great a success."
"In that case I wouldn't go either."
He bent so closely over Janina that she felt his breath upon her face.
"I don't understand you," she said, moving away from him.
"I am going along only for your sake," he whispered in a still quieter tone.
"For my sake? . . ." she queried, glancing at him sharply, and stirred by a sudden aversion.