Henry did not wag an eyelid.
"I see. In mourning for her father."
"No, not exactly that. I think red was the mourning color of the period. But black seems to me right—like the character, like the situation."
"Would you put the dresses on?" said Henry gravely.
At that minute [Walter Lacy] came up, that very Walter Lacy who had been with [Charles Kean] when I was a child, and who now acted as adviser to Henry Irving in his Shakespearean productions.
"Ah, here's Lacy. Would you mind, Miss Terry, telling Mr. Lacy what you are going to wear?"
Rather surprised, but still unsuspecting, I told Lacy all over again. Pink in the first scene, yellow in the second, black—
You should have seen Lacy's face at the word "black." He was going to burst out, but Henry stopped him. He was more diplomatic than that!
"They generally wear white, don't they?"
"I believe so," I answered, "but black is more interesting."