"Well, it looks just like it sounds. We got a little house, and the old lady is happy, and I feel so good that I can even stand her cookin'. Of course, we ain't makin' much money, but I guess I'm getting a little old-fashioned around theatres, anyway. The fellows from newspapers and colleges have got it on me. Last time I asked a man for a job he asked me what I knew about the Greek drama, and when I told him I didn't know the Greeks had a theatre in New York, he slipped me a laugh and told me to come in again on some rainy Tuesday. Then Gallipolis showed on the map, and I beat it for the West." Noticing that his words had hurt her, he stopped, and in an embarrassed kind of way went on: "Sorry if I hurt ye--didn't mean to; and now that yer goin' to be Mrs. Brockton, well, I take back all I said, and while I don't think I want to change my position, I wouldn't turn it down for--for that other reason, that's all." "But, Mr. Weston, I'm not going to be Mrs. Brockton!" she cried hastily, with a note of defiance in her voice. "No?" he exclaimed in surprise. "No." "Oh--oh----" "I'm going to marry another man, and a good man." "The h--ll you are!" She rose and put her hand on his shoulder. Gently, she said: "It's going to be altogether different. I know what you meant when you said about the missis and the kids, and that's what I want--just a little home, just a little peace, just a little comfort, and--and the man has come who's going to give it to me. You don't want me to say any more, do you?" "No, I don't," he said emphatically, in a tone of hearty approval; "and now I'm just going to put my mit out and shake yours and be real glad. I want to tell ye it's the only way to go along. I ain't never been a rival to Rockefeller, nor I ain't never made Morgan jealous, but since the day my old woman took her make-up off for the last time and walked out of that stage door to give me a little help and bring my kids into the world, I knew that was the way to go along; and if you're goin' to take that road, by Jiminy, I'm glad of it, for you sure do deserve it. I wish yer luck." "Thank you."