"You can have the glass now if you want it," said Janet, moving away
to her bed.
Sally rose wearily and began to take off her things.
"I am fagged!" she exclaimed.
Janet said nothing. The blue lines under Sally's eyes, that
indescribable drawing of the flesh of those round cheeks, had told
her that long ago.
Sally gazed at herself in the glass. "Look at my eyes!" she exclaimed.
"I know."
"Awful, aren't they?"
"Pretty bad. Can't think why you don't stick out for more money when
they work you overtime."
"It's no good--they'd get somebody else."
"Let 'em."
"Well then, what should I do?"
"Go on the stage."
Sally looked critically at herself again in the little
mahogany-framed glass that stood on the dressing-table. With an
effort she tried to forget the lines under the eyes, tried to efface
the look of weariness. The thought of being an actress did not enter
her thoughts. It was her appearance she considered.
"Do you think I look well enough?" she asked.
"Fifty per cent. of them are a good deal worse in those musical
comedies."
"How much should I get?"
"Two pounds a week."
"That's as much as you."
"Yes; but you'd have to work for it.
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