Still, they were professional actors of experience, and I was not yet certain that my judgment might not be wrong.

Miss Head, the _ingenue_, a girl of sweet disposition but little education, praised my efforts warmly, but otherwise your evident appreciation is my only real reward.

I spoke to you that evening in the wings not so much to scold you for being in the way, as from a hungry, despairing hope that you might speak some word of encouragement.

I was not disappointed, and I have felt stronger ever since." "I should never have suspected any such purpose.

We have never so much as exchanged speech since, until to-day, and then I forced it." She shook her head, a vagrant tress of her black hair loosening.
"You must be a very young and inexperienced man to expect to comprehend all that any woman feels merely by what she says or does." "No," smilingly, "I have advanced beyond that stage of development, although the mystery of some womanly natures may always remain beyond me.