"This happens most luckily, for I owe him a play."

"How is that?"

"We did Térésa together, and my name appeared; we will do your Mendiante together, and his name shall be on it."

"Oh! it is a regular craze with you not to give your own name? Richard! La Tour de Nesle! You will end by only putting your name to bad dramas."

"Do you mean that in connection with Catherine Howard?"

"No, I said it ... at a venture."

Some one knocked at the door.

"Good!" she continued, "here is Harel coming to worry us."

"Let us see. Come in; what do you want?"