He handed her his visiting card.
"Fine! Bravo!" cried the company.
"Miss Majkowska may now approach, for I promise her a great deal in advance," announced Kotlicki.
"You are an old deceiver, dear public! You promise continually, but you never give me what you promise!" said Mela.
"I will give you . . . in a year from now a debut at the Warsaw
Theater and surely engage you."
Majkowska shrugged her shoulders indifferently and sat down.
"Miss Orlowska!"
Janina arose; she felt a trifle dizzy but at the same time she was so jolly and the game appeared so comical to her, that she approached Kotlicki and called out in an entreating tone: "I desire only one thing: to be able to play. I ask only to be given roles."
"We shall speak about that with the director and you will get them."
"Let us quit that, for it is getting wearisome, Kotlicki! Come over here, we are starting the second round of drinks."