Philip Curtiss

“ In fact, I 've got a very good job, as long as it lasts. But then, when that ends, it begins all over again." She shivered impatiently, and it needed no Dr. MacVickar to see that the poor child really was in very bad shape. "It's so damned endless!" she exclaimed, bitterly.
"But what happens," asked Bellsmith, "when you are not—not playing? In the summer, for instance."
"In the summer it's stock, if I can get it," said the girl. "Oh, don't get the wrong idea. There are always three or four old musical people, or actors, that I call 'aunt' or 'uncle' and where I can always go. ”

“ MacVickar is quite a wonder at that. What does he say is the cause?"
"He does n't have to say. You yourself always know really what is the matter with nerves."
"Worry!" suggested Bellsmith. "Troubles!"
"Of course," said the girl.
"But what kind of troubles?"
"I 've told you," said the girl. "There is only one kind of trouble in the world."
"Money?" asked Bellsmith.
The girl nodded. "Is n't it true?"
Bellsmith did not reply for a moment. Then he said slowly, "Yes, I suppose that it is." ”

“ They've got a man up from New York to arrange some dances. We can go there and sit if you feel like it."
Bellsmith gave directions, and the car turned slowly around.
"Do you have to rehearse?" he asked.
The girl shook her head. "They let me off. I 've got to go on to-night, though. Poppy Vaughn has been playing my part."
"I can't imagine it," said Bellsmith.
"She's not bad at all."
They rode back toward the city for a time in silence. Bellsmith again took the girl's hand. It had been jerked away automatically when Keefe had turned around. ”

“ I suppose that I could have gone on, but I was rather a mess on Wednesday morning. Dr. MacVickar came over to the hotel, like an angel, and really convinced the manager that they'd have a dead soubrette on their hands if I did n't lay off for a few days. ”