TO 10:45 P.M. Kirk stood up and walked back to meet Weigand. He shook his head as he walked back. “Not a word, Lieutenant,” he said. “La Grady seems to think she doesn’t have to come to evening rehearsals. D’you want her?” “Damn it all,” Weigand said. “I want everybody. I can’t have people wandering off and not coming back.” He walked on down, Kirk falling in a step behind him, and addressed the cast. “I want all of you to understand that,” he said. “Just because we let you go on here as if nothing had happened doesn’t mean that nothing has—or that any of you can wander off without talking to us first. Do you all understand that?” He was, Pam thought, being very stern for Bill Weigand. He watched several in the cast nod; heard F. Lawrence Tilford say, with due attention to each syllable: “I am sure we all understand perfectly, Lieutenant.” “After all,” John Hubbard added suddenly, “we’re all here, Lieutenant. Ellen’s the only one who wandered off.”
