She sat boldly in the front, as before; not being a young woman to hide her head where there was danger, and having perhaps a certain amount of the fatalism which is often youth's philosophy in the affairs of life.

"If this is to be, can I avert it ?" Mr.Pole began to nod at the actors, heavily.

He said to Emilia, "If there is any fun going on, give me a nudge." Emilia kept her eyes on her father in the orchestra, full of pity for his deplorable wig, in which she read his later domestic history, and sad tales of the family dinners.
"Do you see one of those"-- she pointed him out to Braintop; "he is next to the leader, with his back to us.

Are you sure?
I want you to give him this note before he goes; when we go.

Will you do it?
I shall always be thankful to you." Considering what Braintop was ready to do that he might be remembered for a day and no more, the request was so very moderate as to be painful to him.
"You will leave him when you have given it into his hand.