I thought I had fainted; but it appears that I nearly cried, and talked the most awful nonsense to her.

I suppose the choking made me hysterical.

However, I distinctly recollect the stage manager bullying the girls, and turning us all out.

I was very angry with myself for being childish, as they told me I had been; and when I got back to Cambridge I actually took to reading.

A few months afterward I made another trip to town, and went behind the scenes again.