“I strove to do it as well as I could,” answered the actress.
“Do you intend to play comedy next season?” says a lady, stepping up to her with great eagerness.
“I shall do as the manager bids me,” she replied.
“I should be curious to know,” says an elderly lady, “which part, Madam, you yourself esteem the best you play?”
“I shall always endeavour to make that which I am about the best.”
An elegant and enchanting young woman of fashion now took her turn of interrogating, and, with many apologies, begged to be informed by her if she studied those enchanting looks and attitudes before a glass?
“I never study anything but my author.”
“Then you practise them at rehearsals?” rejoined the questioner.
“I seldom rehearse at all.”