I can see them ahead before we come up to them and know the danger.

We are over two of them, by the way.

But on the whole I am more interested than nervous.

It's the first time I have ever been to a first night, you see." "Well, upon my word," cried Hardiman, "you are the coolest hand at it I ever saw." But he could have taken back his words the next moment.
In spite of Hillyard's aloof and disinterested air, the night had brought its excitement and in a strength of which he himself was unaware.

It lifted now the veils behind which a man will hide his secret thoughts! He turned swiftly to Hardiman with a boyish light upon his face.
"Oh, I am not in doubt of what to-night means to me! Not for a moment.
If it's failure, it means that I begin again to-morrow on something else; and again after that, and again after that, until success does come.