"No; but it is the reason I sing so much in my little room."
"Mr. Davy says you don't mean to act."
"No more I do mean, but perhaps it will come upon me, and Thoné says, 'Child, you must.'"
"She thinks you have a special gift, then?"
"Who said to you about the special gift, Master Auchester? Do you ever forget anything you hear?"
"Never! I am like Mr. Santonio. But Mr. Davy told me the night I asked him your name."
"Oh, yes, I told him I had not a special gift. I thought the words so put together would please him, and I like to please him, he is good. I do not think it is a special gift, you know, Master Auchester, to act."
"What is it then, Miss Benette?"
"An inspiration."
"Mr. Davy called the conducting at the festival inspiration."