“Certainly. He will have real tears. He says that if an actor wants to draw tears he must shed them himself.”
“I think he is right there; but he should not be so severe with amateurs, above all with charming actresses like you. Such perfection is only to be looked for from professionals, but all authors are the same. They never think that the actor has pronounced the words with the force which the sense, as they see it, requires.”
“I told him, one day, that it was not my fault if his lines had not the proper force.”
“I am sure he laughed.”
“Laughed? No, sneered, for he is a rude and impertinent man.”
“But I suppose you overlook all these failings?”
“Not at all; we have sent him about his business.”
“Sent him about his business?”
“Yes. He left the house he had rented here, at short notice, and retired to where you will find him now. He never comes to see us now, even if we ask him.”
“Oh, you do ask him, though you sent him about his business?”