"Fortune has sent you here at the right moment.

You can act and you can sing.

_I_ know it, but John Rich and the Duchess of Queensberry must know it as well.

Both your acting and singing must be put to the proof, and you must show her grace that she hasn't wasted her money." "That's what I'm most anxious to do, sir." "Aye, aye.

Well, to-morrow I shall bring you some of the songs you'll have to sing in my 'Beggar's Opera'-- that is if we can talk that curmudgeon Rich into the ideas that I and my friends have in our minds.
Are you lodging in Hampstead ?" "Oh, yes.