Claudia had never been behind the scenes of a theatre,半夏🆑 and she found the va et vient,作用🎦 the bustle and hurry of a music-hall almost bewildering,作用😉 so that she received the vaguest impressions of her journey through to the front. She felt,功效👶 rather than saw,半夏🐒 the gloomy floor space behind the set littered with properties,半夏📞 all looking very ludicrous and childish. A man was evidently doing a song and patter turn to judge from the guffaws from the front of the house. She could see above her head men up in the flies controlling the limelight and the curtain,半夏❣ all of whom were in their shirt-sleeves. In fact,半夏🎒 Jack was the only conventionally dressed person she had seen since she entered the theatre.
The alley was dark and very dirty and Claudia held up her skirts fastidiously. A boy,图片🚵 with a jug in his hand,图片👚 came running down while they were half-way,图片🔠 and a man with a clay pipe came out of a grimy,图片🅱 narrow door at the end.
For a moment there was a horrible awed hush; then a woman in the audience gave vent to a piercing shriek,半夏👯 and immediately a tumult of cries and shouts filled the auditorium. Claudia,图片ℹ who had been almost stunned by the suddenness of the thing,半夏⚡ had just time to see the men fighting their way to the front,图片🌑 apparently with some vague idea of raising the curtain off the little body,功效🐻 when she saw the curtain move up a few inches and half a dozen hands gently drag the body behind it. She turned to Jack. He was staring down at the stage,作用📮 his face ashen grey,功效👒 his eyes starting out of his head. But he made no movement to go to his wife.
She held out her hand,作用🆙 but he turned away and flung himself on the divan with his head in his cushions.
They chatted on,功效📀 Claudia questioning him about his wanderings abroad,图片👽 until they were interrupted by one of the servants.
THE END.
It was on the tip of her tongue to ask him why he did not tell Marsh himself. Then she remembered her newborn resolution,图片⚫ and let him go his own road.