"Where's Gay ?" "'A leading woman,'" quoted Jean serenely, "'can't afford to get hurt!'" Burns chuckled.

He knew who was the author of that sentence; he had heard it before.

"Well, if you're as fatal as all that, I can't turn over my leading man for you to practice on, either," he pointed out to her.

"What's the matter with a calf or something ?" "You won't let me ride out of your sight to round one up," Jean retorted.

"There are no calves handy; that's why I asked for a man." Whereupon the villains looked at one another queerly, and the chuckle of their director exploded into a full-lunged laugh.
"I'm going to use all these fellows in a couple of scenes," he told her.