This being as much as to say that he might still hope,
Christopher cast away his thoughts of self-destruction, and went
home with an appetite for a late supper.
Two months elapsed before anything of moment occurred in the
relations thus established. Then at one of their brief meetings
Polly delighted the young man by telling him that he might wait for
her outside the theatre on a certain evening of the same week.
Hitherto such awaitings had been forbidden.
"Won't I, just!" cried Mr. Parish. "And you'll come and have some
supper?"
"I can't promise; I may want to ask you to do something for me. Just
you be ready, that's all."
He promised exultingly, and when the evening came took up his
position a full hour before Polly could be expected to come forth.
Now this was the first night of a new piece at Polly's theatre, and
she, long watching in vain for the reappearance of the lady whose
address she was to discover for Mr. Gammon, thought it a very
possible thing that a person who had been twice to see the old
entertainment might attend the first performance of the new.
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