It was the same theatre in which Anne had played the previous winter and several of the stage hands recognized her and bowed respectfully to her as she passed through to the actor's dressing room.
They found him still in costume.

He never changed to street clothing on matinee days.
"You are respectfully and cordially invited to eat dinner in my dressing room," announced Mr.Southard the moment they were fairly inside the door.

"I have ordered dinner for six o'clock." Eating dinner in a dressing room was an innovation as far as Grace and Miriam were concerned, but to Anne it was nothing new.

It had been in the usual order of things during her brief engagement in "As You Like It." As it was after five o'clock when they arrived it seemed only a little while until a waiter appeared with table linen and silver, which Mr.Southard ordered arranged on the table that had been brought in for the occasion.

Then the dinner was served and eaten with much gayety and laughter.