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PEGGY FINDS THE THEATER

"Of course, this is no surprise to us," Thomas Lane said to his daughter Peggy, who perched tensely on the edge of a kitchen stool. "We could hardly have helped knowing that you've wanted to be an actress since you were out of your cradle. It's just that decisions like this can't be made quickly."

"But, Dad!" Peggy almost wailed. "You just finished saying yourself that I've been thinking about this and wanting it for years! You can't follow that by calling it a quick decision!" She turned to her mother, her hazel eyes flashing under a mass of dark chestnut curls. "Mother, you understand, don't you?"

Mrs. Lane smiled gently and placed her soft white hand on her daughter's lean brown one. "Of course I understand, Margaret, and so does your father. We both want to do what's best for you, not to stand in your way. The only question is whether the time is right, or if you should wait longer."

"Wait! Mother--Dad--I'm years behind already! The theater is full of beginners a year and even two years younger than I am, and girls of my age have lots of acting credits already. Besides, what is there to wait for?"

Peggy's father put down his coffee cup and leaned back in the kitchen chair until it tilted on two legs against the wall behind him. He took his time before answering. When he finally spoke, his voice was warm and slow.

"Peg, I don't want to hold up your career. I don't have any objections to your wanting to act. I think--judging from the plays I've seen you in at high school and college--that you have a real talent. But I thought that if you would go on with college for three more years and get your degree, you would gain so much worth-while knowledge that you'd use and enjoy for the rest of your life--"

"But not acting knowledge!" Peggy cried.

"There's more to life than that," her father put in. "There's history and literature and foreign languages and mathematics and sciences and music and art and philosophy and a lot more--all of them fascinating and all important."

"None of them is as fascinating as acting to me," Peggy replied, "and none of them is nearly as important to my life."

Mrs. Lane nodded. "Of course, dear. I know just how you feel about it," she said. "I would have answered just the same way when I was your age, except that for me it was singing instead of acting. But--" and here her pleasant face betrayed a trace of sadness--"but I was never able to be a singer. I guess I wasn't quite good enough or else I didn't really want it hard enough--to go on with all the study and practice it needed."

She paused and looked thoughtfully at her daughter's intense expression, then took a deep breath before going on.

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