“How much baggage do you take?”
“About eighty trunks.”
“Eighty?”
She laughed at my astonishment.
“Yes,” she added, “there are at least forty-five cases of theatrical costumes. We take nearly two hundred and fifty pairs of shoes, and they fill one entire trunk. There is one for linen, one for flowers, and one for perfumery, and others for my dresses, hats, etc. I really don’t know how my maid manages to find what she wants!”
As Pauline Blanchard.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and the painter Clairin.
“Would it be indiscreet to ask what payment you are to receive?”