All London will be flocking here the rest in a long time." I needn't say, I suppose, that I was immediately engaged for the rest of that week at Gatti's.

And Tinsley's predictions were verified, for the managers from the west end came to me as soon as the news of the hit I had made reached them.

I bore them no malice, though some of them had been ruder than they need ha' been when I went to see them.
They'd had their chance; had they listened to me and recognized what I could do, they could ha' saved their siller.

I'd ha' signed a contract at a pretty figure less the day after I reached London than I was willin' to consider the morning after I'd had my show at Gatti's.
I made verra profitable and happy arrangements wi' several halls, thanks to the London custom that's never spread much to America, that lets an artist appear at sometimes as many as five halls in a nicht.
The managers were still surprised; so was my agent.
"There's something about you they take to, though I'm blowed if I see what it is!" said one manager, with extreme frankness.
Noo, I'm a modest man, and it's no for me to be tellin' them that feel as he did what it is, maybe, they don't see.

'Deed, and I'm no sure I know mysel'.