[Penitently.] I—I'm sorry, ma'am. I—I believe ye've kept your word to us concerning Arthur. I-I——

Rose.

[Not heeding him, looking before her, dreamily.'] My mother knew how fickle fortune could be to us gypsies. One of the greatest actors that ever lived warned her of that—-

Sir William.

Miss Gower will also feel extremely—extremely——

Rose.

Kean once warned mother of that.

Sir William.

[In an altered tone.] Kean? which Kean?

Rose.