"Oh, these modern ways!" she used to say. "We never have any rehearsals at all. How am I going to play the Nurse?"
She played it splendidly—indeed, she as the Nurse and old [Tom Mead] as the Apothecary—the two "old 'uns" romped away with chief honors, had the play all to nothing.
I had one battle with Mrs. Stirling over "tradition." It was in the scene beginning—
"The clock struck twelve when I did send the nurse,
And yet she is not here...."
"The clock struck twelve when I did send the nurse,
And yet she is not here...."
"The clock struck twelve when I did send the nurse,
And yet she is not here...."
"The clock struck twelve when I did send the nurse,
And yet she is not here...."
"The clock struck twelve when I did send the nurse,
And yet she is not here...."
"The clock struck twelve when I did send the nurse,
And yet she is not here...."
"The clock struck twelve when I did send the nurse,
And yet she is not here...."