Kendrick," Ruth replied, much shocked. "It's lots
different, a girls' play like this, from the regular theatre. They'd be
so astonished to see you. Rob's told me, heaps of times, how they go
perfectly crazy after every act, and she has all she can do to keep them
cool enough for the next. She'd never forgive us. And besides, Olivia
Cartwright's not to know you're here, you know."
"That's true. I'd forgotten how disturbing my presence is supposed to
be," and Richard leaned back again to laugh with Mrs. Cartwright.
But, behind the scenes, the news had penetrated, nobody knew just how.
Roberta learned, to her surprise and distraction, that Richard Kendrick
was somehow a particularly interesting figure in the eyes of her young
players, and she speedily discovered that they were all more or less
excited at the knowledge that he was somewhere below the footlights.
Olivia, indeed, was immediately in a flutter, quite as her mother had
predicted, at the thought of Cousin Richard's eyes upon her in her
masculine attire; and Roberta, in the brief interval she could spare for
the purpose, had to take her sternly in hand.
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