"You can't settle the difficulty that way.

If Magdalen plays Julia, who is to play Lucy ?" Miss Marrable sank back in the arm-chair, and gave way to the second convulsion.
"Stuff and nonsense!" cried Magdalen, "the thing's simple enough, I'll act Julia and Lucy both together." The manager was consulted on the spot.

Suppressing Lucy's first entrance, and turning the short dialogue about the novels into a soliloquy for Lydia Languish, appeared to be the only changes of importance necessary to the accomplishment of Magdalen's project.
Lucy's two telling scenes, at the end of the first and second acts, were sufficiently removed from the scenes in which Julia appeared to give time for the necessary transformations in dress.

Even Miss Garth, though she tried hard to find them, could put no fresh obstacles in the way.
The question was settled in five minutes, and the rehearsal went on; Magdalen learning Julia's stage situations with the book in her hand, and announcing afterward, on the journey home, that she proposed sitting up all night to study the new part.

Frank thereupon expressed his fears that she would have no time left to help him through his theatrical difficulties.