"Mr. Glogowski I want you to go out after the fifth act if they call for you," Janina said to him decisively. "But please consider, who is calling for me! Don't you see that it is the gallery? Don't you see the smiles of derision upon the faces of the press and the public in the first rows of seats? I tell you the play is bad, abominable and rotten! Wait and see what they will write about it to-morrow." "What will happen to-morrow we shall see to-morrow. To-day there is success and your splendid play." "Splendid!" he cried painfully. "If you could see the plan of it that I have here in my head, if you could see how splendid and complete it is here, you would know that what they are playing is merely a poor rag and a fragment." Immediately afterwards Cabinski, Topolski, and Kotlicki approached Glogowski and urged him to appear before the public, but still he resisted. Only at the end of the play when the entire audience was wildly applauding and calling for the author, Glogowski went out on the stage with Majkowska, bowed ostentatiously, smoothed his shock of hair and clumsily retreated behind the scenes. "If the play had dances, songs, and music, I wager it would run to the end of the season," said Cabinski. "Dry up, or drink yourself to death, but do not tell me such nonsense," shouted Glogowski. "The next thing you know, the restaurant-keeper will come running in here and begin to berate me because for the same reasons he sold less beer and whiskey; a public that must listen and laughs seldom prefers hot tea." "But my dear sir, nobody writes plays for himself, he writes them for other human beings." "Yes, for human beings, but not for Zulus," retorted Glogowski. Kotlicki again approached Glogowski and spoke to him for a long while. Glogowski frowned and said: "First of all, I haven't the money for it, for it would cost a great deal and, in the second place, I am not at all anxious to be 'one of our well-known and celebrated,' for that is a prostitution of one's talent!" "I can be of service to you with my funds, if you wish. . . . I presume that our old ties of companionship at school . . ." "Let us drop that! . . ." Glogowski violently interrupted him. "But that has given me a certain idea . . . Suppose we arrange a little supper, but only for a few persons, eh?" "Good! we will draw up a list right away; Mr. and Mrs. Cabinski, Majkowska and Topolski, Mimi and Wawrzecki and Glas, as an entertainer, of course. Whom else shall we include?" Kotlicki wished to suggest Janina, but was restrained from saying so openly. "Aha! I know . . . Miss Orlowska . . . the Filipka of my play! Did you see how superbly she acted the part?" "Indeed, she played it well . . ." answered Kotlicki, glancing suspiciously at Glogowski, for he thought that he also had designs upon Janina. "Go and invite them. I will come right away."