Miss Verepoint struck the business note. "Now you stop, boys," she
said. "Tie weights to yourselves and sink down into those chairs. I
want you two lads to write a revue for me."
"Delighted!" said Bromham Rhodes; "but----"
"There is the trifling point to be raised first----" said R. P. de Parys.
"Where is the money coming from?" said Bromham Rhodes.
"My friend, Mr. Bleke, is putting up the money," said Miss Verepoint,
with dignity. "He has taken the Windsor Theater."
The interest of the two authors in their host, till then languid,
increased with a jerk. "Has he? By Jove!" they cried. "We must get
together and talk this over."
It was Roland's first experience of a theatrical talking-over, and he
never forgot it. Two such talkers-over as Bromham Rhodes and R. P. de
Parys were scarcely to be found in the length and breadth of theatrical
London. Nothing, it seemed, could the gifted pair even begin to think
of doing without first discussing the proposition in all its aspects.
The amount of food which Roland found himself compelled to absorb during
the course of these debates was appalling.
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