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can't get the best out of anything unless you help
others to get it, too. And as to being pagan—
why, that's only a bad name you give it. Oh, I'd
love to go to Hollywood and be trained for the
talkies!"

"For God's sake, don't!" I interrupted.
" That's not the place to get the best out of every-
thing for a girl like you/'

" I'm not going to; though I majored in
phonetics when I was at college and got a prize
for an oration on the American Constitution.
But tell me—what do you think of my pro-
nunciation ? How does it compare with the way
the English girls speak—I mean the educated
ones ? "

" I wish the educated English girls always
pronounced the language as distinctly as you do.
All the same there's a difference in the way of

it."

Here followed a discussion on the difference,
which I omit. It ended with my saying: "Any-
how, I'm glad you're not going to try out your
phonetics at Hollywood, though I dare say you'd
make your fortune."

"No, sirl " she exclaimed. " Why, only last
week a guy from Hollywood came round and
offered me a job—he's the third in six months.
I said * Yes, if I may choose my parts I But I'm *
not going to act those scenes with the men P
Guess you know what scenes I mean—the ones
they all end up with, the ones they have to drop