Swiney, according to the orders of the Lord Chamberlain, was to conduct the Haymarket for operatic performances, and the players were all to act at the older house.
For a time life at the theatre went as merrily as a marriage bell.

The public, of both high and low degree, crowded Drury Lane, and every one was happy excepting sour-faced Rich, who saw with disgust that the plausible, insinuating Brett was fast overshadowing him in the management.

How wily Christopher schemed and schemed, and how the gay Colonel was finally compelled to relinquish his portion of the patent altogether, are details that need not be set forth here.

It will suffice to say, that as a result of all this intriguing, affairs at Drury Lane assumed an almost chaotic character.

Nor was it long before Owen Swiney entered into treaty with Wilks, Dogget, Mrs.Oldfield and Cibber, who were to come over to the Haymarket as the heads of a new company.
In this episode the sunny spirit of Nance was brought prettily into the foreground.