while Katie merrily rattles off her lines; then the other two join in, helped by her mood, and the three pages of important explanation are calmly “jumped.” Exactly! Now, not a soul will understand the comedy; no one will know what it is all about; the whole plot, theme and construction, has gone to the devil. God in Heaven! Without these three pages the whole play is a disconnected farrago of nonsense.
What on earth induced Katie to come on too soon? Why did they allow her to come on at all? Now the audience will hiss and boo because the nonsensical plot will only succeed in aggravating it to the highest degree: why, any child could tell you that the play has neither head nor tail now; why hasn’t the producer stopped the play? The author looks at the people in the audience quickly to see if they are protesting already. However, they are only blowing their noses quite naturally, calmly coughing, while from time to time a light laugh floats through the audience: Katie really seems to be making
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