But you must be trained before you can do anything on the stage.

I am disengaged--I am competent--I have trained others--I can train you.

Don't trust my word: trust my eye to my own interests.

I'll make it my interest to take pains with you, and to be quick about it.
You shall pay me for my instructions from your profits on the stage.
Half your salary for the first year; a third of your salary for the second year; and half the sum you clear by your first benefit in a London theater.

What do you say to that?
Have I made it my interest to push you, or have I not ?" So far as appearances went, and so far as the stage went, it was plain that he had linked his interests and Magdalen's together.