She thought I should.

I did indeed! In 'Phedre,' which I first saw, she was not aided at all by her troupe; they were evidently ill at ease in the Greek dress and in Greek manners; while she had assimilated herself to the whole.

It is founded on the play of Euripides, and even to Rachel the passion which she represents as Phedre must have been too strange to be natural.
Hippolytus refuses the love which Phedre offers after a long struggle with herself, and this gives cause for the violent bursts in which Rachel shows her power.

It was an outburst of passion of which I have no conception, and I felt as if I saw a new order of being; not a woman, but a personified passion.

The vehemence and strength were wonderful.