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Ransdell aggravated her nervousness by ostentatiously trying to help her, by making seemingly adroit attempts to cover her mistakes attempts apparently thwarted and exposed only because she was hopelessly bad. In the pause between the second and third acts Ransdell went down and sat with Crossley, and they engaged in earnest conversation.
The act as originally written had been less generous to her; but Ransdell had taken one thing after another away from the others and had given it to her. She made her first entrance precisely as he had trained her to make it and began. A few seconds, and he stopped her. "Please try again, Miss Gower," said he. "I'm afraid that won't do." She tried again; again he stopped her.
He rose to escort her to the hall door. "Personally, the Ransdell sort of thing is distasteful to me. Perhaps if I were not so busy I might be forced by my own giddy misconduct to take less high ground. I've observed that the best that can be said for human nature at its best is that it is as well behaved as its real temptations permit. He was making you, you know. You've admitted it."
Still, your fall-down as a singer is the important fact. Don't lose sight of it." "I shan't," said she tersely. His eyes were frankly laughing. "As to Ransdell what a clever trick! He's a remarkable man. If he weren't so shrewd in those little ways, he might have been a great man. Same old story just a little too smart, and so always doing the little thing and missing the big thing.
Ransdell that my failure is due." "My dear Miss Gower," said Crossley, polite but cold, "I regret hearing you say that. The fact is very different. Not until you had done so so unacceptably at several rehearsals that news of it reached me by another way not until I myself went to Mr. Ransdell about you did he admit that there could be a possibility of a doubt of your succeeding.
Yet no one but Mildred herself suspected that Ransdell had done it, had revenged himself, had served notice on her that since she felt strong enough to stand alone she was to have every opportunity to do so. He had said nothing disagreeable; on the contrary, he had been most courteous, most forbearing. In the third act she was worse than in the second.
The while, the members of the company wandered restlessly about the stage, making feeble attempts to lift the gloom with affected cheerfulness. Ransdell returned to the stage, went up to Mildred, who was sitting idly turning the leaves of a part-book. "Miss Gower," said he, and never had his voice been so friendly as in these regretful accents, "don't try to go on to-day.
Yes, he went gunning for you and got you." He dropped into his chair. He thought a moment, laughed aloud, went on: "No doubt he has worked that same trick many a time. I've suspected it once or twice, but this time he fooled me. He got you, Miss Gower, and I can do nothing. You must see that I can't look after details. And I can't give up as invaluable a man as Ransdell.
On her side she, who had looked forward to the interview with some nervousness, was at her ease the moment she faced him alone in that inner office. He had extraordinary personal charm more than Ransdell, though Ransdell had the charm invariably found in a handsome human being with the many-sided intellect that gives lightness of mind. Crossley was not intellectual, not in the least.
Then Mildred said: "If I got a place somewhere else, I'd meet the same thing in another form." "You've got to risk that." "Besides, I'd never have had a chance of succeeding if Mr. Ransdell hadn't taught me and stood behind me."
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