**Do, do!" she entreated. "Every child I meet is
horn in the stalls, if not in the green-room. I shall never
have such another opportunity of .working on an abso-
lutely virgin soil/'

So they went, and the effect on Wilhelmina was over-
whelming. " I fear it was a great waste," she said long
afterwards to Miss Evelyn. " So much less would have
been enough to fill my tiny cup. But how that night
stands out in my memory ! "

She sat still as a mouse, with all her soul in her eyes,
till her " friend " came on the stage ; then she sprang to
her feet with outstretched arms.
"0^, Miss Evelyn r^ she cried in tones of burning
admiration.
A murmur of amusement ran through tjie stalls. The
young actress hesitated, smiled, forgot her part for the
fraction of a second; then bowed and recovered herself
in response to a burst of applause.
Mr. Galbraith had no special wish under the circum-
stances to be affiche in this fashion; but, apart from
that, he was quite man of the world enough to appreciate
the situation. Indeed he and Wilhelmina were really
drawn to each other more nearly that night than they
had been hitherto. In the interval between the first and
second acts he ordered an ice for her delectation, and
later he took her to visit Miss Evelyn in her room.
