Jones slips his fedora on, smiles at Gracie one last time, and walks out without looking back again because he knows he would change his mind if he did; he would take the stage with her and play the part and dance the part and sing the part and love her until the curtains dropped and the show closed for good. And so, it takes everything in Jones not to go back to Gracie, to tell her the truth about the trick that’s been played on her, what she really is and what he really is, and hope she can forgive him – because this is all his fault.
