I've never seen anything of the sort in all my life." "Ah, I daresay it's a sort of revelation to you," said Sardanapalus, with good-humoured condescension.

"Have a drop of whiskey-and-water?
Well, well, I won't press you.

And so you've enjoyed the play ?" "The whole thing has interested me enormously," replied Austin.

"It has given me any amount to think of." "Ah, that's good; that's very good, indeed," said the actor, nodding sagely.

"Do you remember what I was saying to you the other day about the educative power of the stage?
That's what it is, you see; the greatest educative power in the land.