He was seeing a "close-up" of Jean whirling her loop and lassoing the drowning man just as he had given up hope and was going under for the third time.

Lee Milligan was the drowning man! and the agony of his eyes, and the tenseness of Jean's face, made Robert Grant Burns draw a long breath.
"Lord, what feature-stuff that would make!" he said under his breath.
"I'll write a scenario around that rescue scene." Whereupon he caught himself.

It is not well for a director to permit his enthusiasm to carry him into injudicious speech.

He chuckled to hide his eagerness.
"Well, you can show me that location," he said, "and we'll get to work.
You'll have to use the sorrel, of course; but I guess he'll be all right.

This saddling scene will have to wait till I send for a wig.
You can change clothes with Miss Gay and get by all right at a distance, just as you are.