“Is she giving up?”
“Unfortunately she’s obliged. She’s just had another babelet, poor dear.”
“What were her parts?”
“In Bashful Miss Bardine the governess was one of them.”
“Oh!”
“And in Lara, she was the orphan. That part should suit you well,” Mrs. Mary murmured, rising and taking from a cabinet a bundle of printed sheets.
“Is it rags?”
“Rags?”
“May she——; is she allowed Evening dress?”
“Never mind about her dress. Let me hear how you’d deliver her lines,” Mrs. Mary tartly said, placing in Miss Sinquier’s hands a brochure of the play.