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Updated: May 15, 2025
No achievement of her days not even teaching the sextette to talk had the power to give her, in her nights, a sense of progress, or to lessen the necessity for that sheer dumb endurance which was the only weapon she had. Because she was in the fetters of a fixed idea.
"All the time there's been since last rehearsal," said Rosa, "except for three meals." "Good God!" said Galbraith. "Devereux said it couldn't be done, and I agreed with her. Well, live and learn. Look here! Will you teach the others the other four in the sextette? I'll see you're paid for it." "Why, yes, of course," said Rose, hesitating a little.
Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and guitars disguised as wash-boards. The most applauded pieces were those, such as the "Lucia" inevitability, which the audience had heard most often.
The night of that concert Marienbad saw the last of the Bavarian sextette, which at midnight, joined by its old dancer with the tenor voice, left in a third-class carriage for Vienna. Hugh Krayne, not possessing enough to pay his passage, had not been invited; nor was he informed of the sudden departure until a day later....
But she hadn't, in these few weeks of Clark Street, lost the air of one who will buy if she sees anything worth buying. In fact, the saleswoman thought, correctly, that she knew her and was in for a shock a little later when Mrs. Goldsmith and the other five members of the sextette arrived.
"It isn't for me," said Rose. "It's for Olga Larson to wear in that All Alone number for the sextette." "Why Larson especially?" he asked. "Except that she's a friend of yours." "She isn't," said Rose, "particularly. And anyway, that wouldn't be a reason. But did you ever really look at her? She's the one really beautiful woman in the company." "Larson?" said John Galbraith incredulously.
I won't pretend that she was a favorite with the other members of the sextette, barring Olga. But she managed to avoid being cordially hated, which was a very solid personal triumph. I have said that there were two small incidents destined to have a powerful influence at this time, in Rose's life. One of them I have told you about the chance that led her to teach Olga Larson to talk.
When this hadn't happened, the shows she had been in had failed after a few weeks' life. When Galbraith had put her into the sextette in The Girl Up-stairs, a hope, just about dead, had been awakened. She'd at last learned to dance well enough to escape censure and she had seen for herself how indispensable her singing voice was to the group. And then it had appeared she'd have to talk!
He was pointed out as a celebrity once a monster Englishman, who had taken the Kur; who was in love, but so poor that he could not marry. The girl with him was certain to make a success in grand opera some day. Yes, Marienbad was proud of Krayne. He was one of her show sons, a witness to her curative powers. Proud also of the Bavarian Präger Sextette. Herr Präger was reputed a rich man....
The Larson girl looked at her again. "He's supposed to be about the best in the business," she said, "and I guess he is." She added, "Dave tells me he's going to put you with us in the sextette." Dave was the thick pianist, and Rose had found him in the highest degree obnoxious. The principals, when they should appear, would, Rose assumed, belong on the quarter-deck too.
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