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And there were other possibilities. From the writing
of skeleton scenarios for improvisers, he might presently pass to
writing plays of dialogue, plays in the proper sense of the word,
after the manner of Chenier, Eglantine, and Beaumarchais.
The fact that he dreamed such dreams shows us how very kindly he
had taken to the profession into which Chance and M. Binet between
them had conspired to thrust him. That he had real talent both
as author and as actor I do not doubt, and I am persuaded that had
things fallen out differently he would have won for himself a
lasting place among French dramatists, and thus fully have realized
that dream of his.
Now, dream though it was, he did not neglect the practical side
of it.
"You realize," he told M. Binet, "that I have it in my power to
make your fortune for you."
He and Binet were sitting alone together in the parlour of the inn
at Pipriac, drinking a very excellent bottle of Volnay. It was on
the night after the fourth and last performance there of "Les
Feurberies.


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