I acknowledge I should have long since tired of the life and its hardships, had you not chanced to be a member of the same troupe." "I, Mr.Winston?
Why, we have scarcely spoken to each other until to-day." "True, yet I strenuously deny that it was my fault.

In fact, I had firmly determined that we should, and, having been a spoiled child, I am accustomed to having my own way.

This, perhaps, will partially account for my persistency and for my still being with 'The Heart of the World.' But all else aside, I early became intensely interested in your work, Miss Norvell, instantly recognizing that it required no common degree of ability to yield dignity to so poor a thing as the play in which you appear.

I began to study you and your interpretation; I never tired of noting those little fresh touches with which you constantly succeeded in embellishing your lines and your 'business,' and how clearly your conception of character stood forth against the crude background of those mummers surrounding you.

It was a lesson in interpretative art to me, and one I never wearied of.
Then, I must likewise confess, something else occurred." He paused, looking aside at her, and, as though she felt the spell of that glance, she turned her own face, brightened by such earnest words of praise, their eyes meeting frankly.
"What ?" "The most natural thing in the world--my admiration for the art only served to increase my early interest in the artist.