young, Ken. Tell me I’m young and beautiful and bewitching.”

“You’re young and beautiful and bewitching.”

“Ugh! And yet they say the Irish have the golden tongues.”

Two months later Harrietta had an offer to go into pictures. It wasn’t her first, but it undeniably was the best. The sum offered per week was what she might usually expect to get per month in a successful stage play. To accept the offer meant the Coast. She found herself having a test picture taken and trying to believe the director who said it was good; found herself expatiating on the brightness, quietness, and general desirability of the eleventh-floor apartment in Fifty-sixth Street to an acquaintance who was seeking a six months’ city haven for the summer.