Bassett asked me to read the play, and I took it away, with the writer's letter, for that purpose.

But we were just then very busy, and I had no opportunity of reading anything for a time.
Later on, we went to St.Louis, and there, of course, Bassett, as usual, was much feted and went out a great deal, lunching with people and so on.
One day he came to me, 'By-the-bye, Dennie!' he said, 'I met that Mr.
Marston Greyle today who sent me that romantic one-act thing.

He wanted to know if I'd read it, and I had to confess that it was in your hands.
Have you looked at it ?' I, too, had to confess--I hadn't.

'Well,' said he, 'read it and let me know what you think--will it suit me ?' I made time to read the little play during the following week, and I told Bassett that I didn't think it would suit him, but I felt sure it might suit Montagu Gaines, who plays just such parts.

Bassett thereupon wrote to the author and said what I, his reader, thought, and kindly offered, as he knew Gaines intimately, to show the little work to him on his return to England.