“Then I am glad I’m not like most actors.”
“Yeou alwus was pop’ler with the ladies,” grinned the Vermont youth.
“I don’t mind being popular with the ladies, but I do not fancy this kind of popularity.”
“You’d never do for a matinée hero,” said Hodge. “I have heard that they are deluged with mash notes. It gets to be a common thing with them, and they don’t mind it at all.”
“I don’t like to see such a display of weakness on the part of human beings. Now, what does this woman who has quoted Juliet to me know about me?”
“As much as you know about her.”
“And she has taken chances of becoming a laughingstock and object of ridicule by writing me such stuff. For all she knows, I may be married.”
“And, for all you know, she may be married.”
“I do not believe that is possible. No married woman would write such a letter.”
“Wouldn’t? Oh, I don’t know! Some of them are inclined to be rather gay.”