"You speak it in perfection."
"And English just as well," said Miss Rooth.
"You oughtn't to be an actress—you ought to be a governess."
"Oh don't tell us that: it's to escape from that!" pleaded Mrs. Rooth.
"I'm very sure your daughter will escape from that," Peter Sherringham was moved to interpose.
"Oh if you could help her!" said the lady with a world of longing.
"She has certainly all the qualities that strike the eye," Peter returned.
"You're most kind, sir!" Mrs. Rooth declared, elegantly draping herself.
"She knows Célimène; I've heard her do Célimène," Gabriel Nash said to Madame Carré".
"And she knows Juliet, she knows Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra," added Mrs. Rooth.