Until then I really thought that Sally was being sardonic about an iron as a substitute for victuals!
When she first began to dress me, I was very thin, so thin that it was really a grief to me. Sally would comfort me in my thin days by the terse compliment:
"Beautiful and fat to-night, dear."
As the years went on and I grew fat, she made a change in the compliment:
"Beautiful and thin to-night, dear."
Mr. Fernandez played Friar Laurence in "Romeo and Juliet." He was a very nervous actor, and it used to paralyze him with fright when I knelt down in the friar's cell with my back to the audience and put safety pins in the drapery I wore over my head to keep it in position while I said the lines,
"Are you at leisure, holy father, now
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?"
"Are you at leisure, holy father, now
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?"
"Are you at leisure, holy father, now
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?"
"Are you at leisure, holy father, now
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?"