
You are Hilda Howe, an actress whose touring company has just reached Calcutta, and your rented room fills with two people asking what your work is for. Laura Filbert, a barefoot Salvation Army worker, wants you to see a theatre as a place for saving souls rather than staging them. Duff Lindsay, an old and unequal friend, warns that Bradley's sacrifice for you may carry a claim neither of you has named, and leaves for a church dinner still waiting for you to say what Laura's challenge means to you.
Read The Path of a Star