Perhaps you won't like it, perhaps you will.

Who knows?
who dares hope?
I am beginning to be anxious about 'Colombe's Birthday.' I care much more about it than Robert does.

He says that nobody will mistake it for _his_ speculation, it's Mr.Buckstone's affair altogether.

True; but I should like it to succeed, being Robert's play notwithstanding.

But the play is subtle and refined for pits and galleries.