If he is selfish enough to overlook the
matter, he must suffer the consequences."
All of which, I think, was very reasonable. No heroine likes to feel
that she is called into being merely to provide copy for the person
who is narrating her story; and to be impressed with the idea that
the moment she is off the stage she must shift entirely for herself
is too humiliating to be compatible with true heroism.
Now it so happened that in his meditations upon that opening chapter
the scene of which was to be placed on board of the New York, Stuart
realized that his story of Miss Andrews's character had indeed been
too superficial. He found that out at the moment he sat down to
describe her arrival at the pier, as it would be in all likelihood.
What would she say the moment she--the moment she what?--the moment
she "emerged from the perilous stream of vehicles which crowd West
Street from morning until night," or the moment "she stepped out of
the cab as it drew up at the foot of the gangway"? That was the
point. How would she arrive--on foot or in a cab? Which way would
she come, and at what time must she start from home? Should she come
alone, or should Mrs.
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