After a day devoted to business affairs, he had been attracted by the idea of going to the theatre to see again a play he had already seen in New York.

It would interest him to observe its exact effect upon a London audience.

While he had been in New York, he had gone with something of the same feeling to see a great English actor play to a crowded house.
The great actor had been one who had returned to the country for a third or fourth time, and, in the enthusiasm he had felt in the atmosphere about him, Mount Dunstan had seen not only pleasure and appreciation of the man's perfect art, but--at certain tumultuous outbursts--an almost emotional welcome.

The Americans, he had said to himself, were creatures of warmer blood than the English.

The audience on that occasion had been, in mass, American.