Richard Warrington.
"It was scarcely polite, was it ?" she asked, with a tinge of irony.
"It was scarcely diplomatic, either, you will admit.

I simply asked you for work.

Surely, an honest effort to obtain employment ought not to be met with insolence." He stared dumbly at the evidence in his hand.

He recalled distinctly the rage that was in his heart when he penned this note.

The stage manager had lost some valuable manuscript that had to be rewritten from memory, the notes having been destroyed.
"For weeks," said the girl, "I have tried to get a hearing.