"Where will I go?" she asked herself, and then added with a sudden determination. "No, I will stay! . . . I will bear all, if it is necessary . . . I must! . . . I must!"
Janina became set in her stubborn determination. She collected within herself all her powers for impending battle with misfortune, with obstacles, with the whole evil and hostile world and for a moment, she saw herself on some dizzying height where was fame and the intoxication of triumph.
Presently Sowinska came in.
"Thank you, for your advice . . . and for leaving me with a pig! . . ." the girl exclaimed, half weeping.
"I was in a hurry . . . he did not eat you, did he? . . . He's a good man. . . ."
"Then leave your daughter alone with that good man!" retorted Janina harshly. "My daughter is not an actress," answered Sowinska.
"Oh! . . . It doesn't matter . . . It's only a lesson for me," she whispered, turning away.
She met Cabinski and, approaching him, asked, "Will you accept me,
Mr. Director?"
"You may consider yourself engaged," he answered. "As for your salary we shall speak of that another day."
"What am I to play? . . . I should like to take the part of Clara in
The Iron Master."