"Meg, I find it difficult to put into words just what's in my mind. Of course if it's successful it will mean----"
"It will mean everything."
"It will mean a good deal; but it will mean everything I'd rather it didn't mean if the success is owing to her."
"But it will be your play. In one sense its success will always be dependent upon others. Really, Harry, I don't follow you. What is your objection to Mrs. Lamb? She's never done you any harm."
"No, she hasn't done me any harm--as yet."
"As yet! Do you think she means to? Considering that she proposes to produce your play, and bids fair to make a great success of it, it doesn't look as if she did."
"Meg--you'll laugh at me--I'm afraid of her."
"Afraid of her?--of Mrs. Lamb!--Harry!"
"I've never been comfortable in her presence since the first moment I've met her. When she's there I have the sort of feeling which I imagine a nervous person might have in the neighbourhood of a dangerous lunatic. I don't know when or how she will break out, but I feel that sometime, somehow, she will, and that then I shall have to struggle with her for my life."
"Harry! are you in earnest?"