“I hope he’ll let me.”
“Do you know ‘On Baile’s Strand’?”
“He’s thinking of doing that, too. I haven’t read it. But I hear there’s nothing in it for me.”
“Oh, yes, there is! There’s the part of the young prince. It wouldn’t be a half bad idea. You’re quite as much a boy as a girl. You’d be a very striking young prince.”
“Thank you!”
“However, I was thinking of another part for you—the part of the warrior-queen that the two kings talk about. You remember?”
“No.”
“She doesn’t actually appear in the play. But she ought to. I’d like to write you a play about her.”
“Tell me about her!”
“She fights like a man, and bears a love-child to a soldier-king—and then makes war on him. He is speaking about her afterward, in Yeats’s play, and he says to the older king: