"I beg your pardon, ma'am," he said.

"Miss Marrable told me, before we began, that this was the young lady's first attempt.

It can't be, surely!" "It is," replied Miss Garth, reflecting the manager's look of amazement on her own face.

Was it possible that Magdalen's unintelligible industry in the study of her part really sprang from a serious interest in her occupation--an interest which implied a natural fitness for it.
The rehearsal went on.

The stout lady with the wig (and the excellent heart) personated the sentimental Julia from an inveterately tragic point of view, and used her handkerchief distractedly in the first scene.