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ise. THE GENTLEMAN [to the girl] Come, e! he cant touch you: you have a right to live where you please. A SARCASTIC BYSTANDER [thrusting himself between the note taker and the gentleman] Park Lane, for instance. Id like to go into the Housing Question with you, I would. THE FLOWER GIRL [subsiding into a brooding melanc holy over her basket, and talking very lowspiritedly to herself] I39。m a good girl, I am. THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER [not attending to her] Do you know where I e from? THE NOTE TAKER [promptly] Hoxton. Titterings. Popular interest in the note taker39。s performance increases. THE SARCASTIC ONE [amazed] Well, who said I didnt? Bly me! You know everything, you do. THE FLOWER GIRL [still nursing her sense of injury] Aint no call to meddle with me, he aint. THE BYSTANDER [to her] Of course he aint. Dont you stand it from him. [To the note taker] See here: what call have you to know about people what never offered to meddle with you? Wheres your warrant? SEVERAL BYSTANDERS [encouraged by this seeming point of law] Yes: wheres your warrant? THE FLOWER GIRL Let him say what he likes. I dont want to have no truck with him. THE BYSTANDER You take us for dirt under your feet, dont you? Catch you taking liberties with a gentleman! THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER Yes: tell h i m where he e from if you want to go fortunetelling. THE NOTE TAKER Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge, and India. THE GENTLEMAN Quite right. [Great laughter. Reaction in the note taker39。s favor. Exclamations of He knows all about it. Told him proper. Hear him tell the toff where he e from? etc.]. May I ask, sir, do you do this for your living at a music hall? THE NOTE TAKER Ive thought of that. Perhaps I shall some day. The rain has stopped。 and the persons on the outside of the crowd begin to drop off. THE FLOWER GIRL [resenting the reaction] Hes no gentleman, he aint, to interfere with a poor girl. THE DAUGHTER [out of patience, pushing her way rudely to the front and displacing the gentleman, who politely retires to the other side of the pillar] What on earth is Freddy doing? I shall get pneumonia if I stay in this draught any longer. THE NOTE TAKER [to himself, hastily making a note of her pronunciation of monia] Earlscourt. THE DAUGHTER [violently] Will you please keep your impertinent remarks to yourself? THE NOTE TAKER Did I say that out loud? I didnt mean to. I beg your pardon. Your mother39。s Epsom, unmistakeably. THE MOTHER [advancing between her daughter and the note taker] How very curious! I was brought up in Largelady Park, near Epsom. THE NOTE TAKER [uproariously amused] Ha! ha! What a devil of a name! Excuse me. [To the daughter] You want a cab, do you? THE DAUGHTER Dont dare speak to me. THE MOTHER Oh, please, please Clara. [Her daughter repudiates her with an angry shrug and retires haughtily.] We should be so grateful to you, sir, if you found us a cab. [The note taker produces a whistle]. Oh, thank you. [She joins her daughter]. 5. Closing down by learning to act Acting is the only art you cannot be caught doing. An actor must: 1. light up the screen, 2. have a buzz in themselves, 3. be on, 4. use energy for entertainment, 5. look into special interesting things of the character, 6. love them self。 I39。m great and I39。m amazing, 7. leave their talent alone and 8. learn instant acting.