Crossword-Solution: SUBPLOT 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

But I do not expect to land him--I merely purpose to learn his identity, to draw the net of the law about him, in such a way as to keep the Grimsby and Van Cleft names from the case.” “And how can that be done?” “That, young lady, is my 'fatal secret.' The subplot developing within my mind is still nebulous with me,--you would lose all interest, as would I, if you knew what was going to happen.

Already her name had been linked with a co-author on programs and three-sheets, because a collaborator, a professional mender of plays, had been called in at the last moment to riddle the drama's somber story with a few "laughs." A character policeman, a comedy jury foreman, and a subplot of love story between the character policeman and an Irish cook had been "written in." The last act entirely revised, a happy ending substituted, and the theme of the story extricated like a jumping nerve.

She places in Molière's framework more credible women characters than his, especially in the charming Miranda and the crafty Patch; she constructs a more skillful intrigue plot for the stage than his subplot and emphasizes Spanish customs in the lively Charles-Isabinda-Traffick plot.

This is a strong, virile novel with the lumber industry for its central theme and a love story full of interest as a sort of subplot.

This insistence upon singleness of purpose in a play, clinging to it against all allurements, does not imply that what is known as a subplot may not be allowed in a drama.