It was the turning-point in my life.

And I began right where I was.

I endeavored to make the utmost possible out of that miserable melodramatic part which had been assigned to me.

I elected to play it quietly, with an intensity to be felt and not heard, the very opposite from the interpretation given by Miss Lyle last season, and I felt assured my efforts were appreciated by the audiences.

It encouraged me to discover them so responsive; but Albrecht, Lane, and Mooney merely laughed and winked at each other, and thus hurt me cruelly, although I had little respect for their criticisms.