You've never seen Desforets, I think ?--no, of course not, and you will be gone before she comes again.
What a pity!" 'Miss Bretherton picked one of my primroses ruthlessly to pieces, and flung it away from her with one of her nervous gestures.

"I am not sorry," she said.

"Nothing would have induced me to go and see her." '"Indeed!" I said, waiting a little curiously for what she would say next.
'"It's not that I am jealous of her," she exclaimed, with a quick proud look at me; "not that I don't believe she's a great actress; but I can't separate her acting from what she is herself.

It is women like that who bring discredit on the whole profession--it is women like that who make people think that no good woman can be an actress.

I resent it, and I mean to take the other line.