It was immense, and yet Jean seemed unimpressed.

She was gladder to see Pard and Lite again than she was to meet the six-hundred-a-week star whose popularity she seemed in a fair way to outrival.

Men and women who were "in stock," and therefore within the social pale, were introduced to her and said nice, hackneyed things about how they admired her work and were glad to welcome her.

She felt the warm air of good-fellowship that followed her everywhere.

All of these people seemed to accept her at once as one of themselves.