CHAPTER XXVI

A WOMAN’S HEART The papers next morning, with one accord, were almost unanimous in their praise of _Honeysuckle_. Will’s operetta didn’t set the Thames on fire, to be sure—a first work seldom does—but it secured such an amount of modest success as decided him to change his plans largely for the future. It was certain, now, that he might take himself seriously as a musical purveyor. So he began to drop off to some extent from the hack work of journalism, and devote his energies in earnest to his new task in life as …