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But the labors of the chorus , and even of the sextette , shrank very much in proportion to the work of the principals . Nearly all the changes that were made were in the direction of compressing the chorus and giving the principals more room . So that for long stretches of time , during which , dressed in her working clothes and curled up in one of the remoter of the cushioned window-seats , but ready to answer a summons to the stage as promptly as a fireman , she could let her mind run without interruption on the solution of some of her own problems , and then be ready when she went back to her room , to fall into bed and asleep -LRB- the two acts had become practically simultaneous -RRB- secure in the possession of a clearly thought out program for the morrow . She wakened automatically at half past seven and was down-town by half past eight , to do whatever shopping the work of the previous day revealed the need of . The fact that it was , for the greater part , John Galbraith 's money she was spending -LRB- she had managed to put in a little herself by calculating down to a fine point the necessary margin for existence -RRB- worked to her advantage in these operations . She could not , but for that fact , have forced herself to hunt down bargains so persistently nor to keep the incidental expense for findings and such , so low . At nine-thirty in the morning -- an unheard of hour in the theater -- the watchman at the Globe let her in the stage door , and Rose had half an hour before the arrival of the wardrobe mistress and her assistant , for looking over the work done since she had left for rehearsal the day before .