Mebbe the ithers were richt, too, who said that if I did the audience would howl me down and they'd ring doon the curtain on me.

I didna believe that last, though, I'm tellin' ye--I was sure that I'd be as well received in London as I had been in Birkenhead, could I but mak' a manager risk giving me a turn.
Still I was nervous.

The way it lookit to me, I had a' to gain and nothin' much tae lose.

If I succeeded--ah, then there were no bounds to the future I saw before me! Success in London is like no success in the provinces.

It means far more.