"Here! Good Lord! Do you mean to say-- ?" "Struggle--struggle--struggle!" cut in the man impatiently.

"Can't you grasp the situation?
It's a put-up thing: the taking of a kinematograph film--a living picture--for the Alhambra to-night! Heavens above, Marguerite, didn't you tell him ?" "Non, non! There was not ze time.

You come so quick, I could not.

And he--ah, le bon Dieu!--he gif me no chance.

Officair, I beg, I entreat of you, make it real! Struggle, fight, keep on ze constant move.
Zere!"-- something tinkled on the pavement with the unmistakable sound of gold--"zere, monsieur, zere is the half-sovereign to pay you for ze trouble, only, for ze lof of goodness, do not pick it up while the instrument--ze camera--he is going.