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There
was
nothing
in
which
he
did
not
think
that
he
knew
better
than
anybody
else
.
As
time
went
on
he
began
to
act
less
frequently
.
He
found
himself
much
more
interested
in
management
.
"
I
want
to
run
my
theatre
in
as
business
-
like
way
as
a
city
office
,
"
he
said
.
And
he
felt
that
he
could
more
profitably
spend
his
evenings
,
when
Julia
was
acting
,
by
going
to
outlying
theatres
and
trying
to
find
talent
.
He
kept
a
little
book
in
which
he
made
a
note
of
every
actor
who
seemed
to
show
promise
.
Then
he
had
taken
to
directing
.
It
had
always
grizzled
him
that
directors
should
ask
so
much
money
for
rehearsing
a
play
,
and
of
late
some
of
them
had
even
insisted
on
a
percentage
on
the
gross
.
At
last
an
occasion
came
when
the
two
directors
Julia
liked
best
were
engaged
and
the
only
other
one
she
trusted
was
acting
and
thus
could
not
give
them
all
his
time
.
"
I
’
ve
got
a
good
mind
to
have
a
shot
at
it
myself
,
"
said
Michael
.
Julia
was
doubtful
.
He
had
no
fantasy
and
his
ideas
were
commonplace
.
She
was
not
sure
that
he
would
have
authority
over
the
cast
.
But
the
only
available
director
demanded
a
fee
that
they
both
thought
exorbitant
and
there
was
nothing
left
but
to
let
Michael
try
.
He
made
a
much
better
job
of
it
than
Julia
expected
.
He
was
thorough
;
he
worked
hard
.
Julia
,
strangely
enough
,
felt
that
he
was
getting
more
out
of
her
than
any
other
director
had
done
.
He
knew
what
she
was
capable
of
,
and
,
familiar
with
her
every
inflection
,
every
glance
of
her
wonderful
eyes
,
every
graceful
movement
of
her
body
,
he
was
able
to
give
her
suggestions
out
of
which
she
managed
to
build
up
the
best
performance
of
her
career
.
With
the
cast
he
was
at
once
conciliatory
and
exacting
.
When
tempers
were
frayed
his
good
humour
,
his
real
kindliness
,
smoothed
things
over
.
After
that
there
was
no
question
but
that
he
should
continue
to
direct
their
plays
.
Authors
liked
him
because
,
being
unimaginative
,
he
was
forced
to
let
the
plays
speak
for
themselves
and
often
not
being
quite
sure
what
they
meant
he
was
obliged
to
listen
to
them
.
Julia
was
now
a
rich
woman
.
She
could
not
but
admit
that
Michael
was
as
careful
of
her
money
as
of
his
own
.
He
watched
her
investments
and
was
as
pleased
when
he
could
sell
stocks
at
a
profit
on
her
account
as
if
he
had
made
the
money
for
himself
.
He
put
her
down
-
for
a
very
large
salary
,
and
was
proud
to
be
able
to
say
that
she
was
the
most
highly
paid
actress
in
London
,
but
when
he
himself
acted
he
never
put
himself
down
for
a
higher
salary
than
he
thought
the
part
was
worth
.
When
he
directed
a
play
he
put
down
on
the
expense
account
the
fee
that
a
director
of
the
second
rank
would
have
received
.
They
shared
the
expenses
of
the
house
and
the
cost
of
Roger
’
s
education
.
Roger
had
been
entered
for
Eton
within
a
week
of
his
birth
.
It
was
impossible
to
deny
that
Michael
was
scrupulously
fair
and
honest
.
When
Julia
realized
how
much
richer
she
was
than
he
she
wanted
to
pay
all
these
expenses
herself
.
"
There
’
s
no
reason
why
you
should
,
"
said
Michael
.
"
As
long
as
I
can
pay
my
whack
*
I
’
ll
pay
it
.
You
earn
more
than
I
do
because
you
’
re
worth
more
.
I
put
you
down
for
a
good
salary
because
you
draw
it
.
"
No
one
could
do
other
than
admire
the
self
-
abnegation
with
which
he
sacrificed
himself
for
her
sake
.
Any
ambition
he
may
have
had
for
himself
he
had
abandoned
in
order
to
foster
her
career
.
Even
Dolly
,
who
did
not
like
him
,
acknowledged
his
unselfishness
.
A
sort
of
modesty
had
always
prevented
Julia
from
discussing
him
with
Dolly
,
but
Dolly
,
with
her
shrewdness
,
had
long
seen
how
intensely
Michael
exasperated
his
wife
,
and
now
and
then
took
the
trouble
to
point
out
how
useful
he
was
to
her
.
Everybody
praised
him
.
A
perfect
husband
.
It
seemed
to
her
that
none
but
she
knew
what
it
was
like
to
live
with
a
man
who
was
such
a
monster
of
vanity
.
His
complacency
when
he
had
beaten
an
opponent
at
golf
or
got
the
better
of
someone
in
a
business
deal
was
infuriating
.
He
gloried
in
his
artfulness
.
He
was
a
bore
,
a
crashing
bore
.
He
liked
to
tell
Julia
everything
he
did
and
every
scheme
that
passed
through
his
head
;
it
had
been
charming
when
merely
to
have
him
with
her
was
a
delight
,
but
for
years
she
had
found
his
prosiness
intolerable
.
He
could
describe
nothing
without
circumstantial
detail
.
Nor
was
he
only
vain
of
his
business
acumen
;
with
advancing
years
he
had
become
outrageously
vain
of
his
person
.
As
a
youth
he
had
taken
his
beauty
for
granted
:
now
he
began
to
pay
more
attention
to
it
and
spared
no
pains
to
keep
what
was
left
of
it
.
It
became
an
obsession
.
