I don't expect her before midnight.

She is on the stage till the end of the play." "I know; I was in the first piece.

I left the theatre after the first act of _La Mere confidente_.
"Oh, Monsieur Chevalier, why didn't you stay till the end?
My daughter would have been so pleased if you had waited.

When one is acting one likes to have friends in the house." Chevalier replied ambiguously: "Oh, as to friends, there are plenty of those about." "You are mistaken, Monsieur Chevalier; good friends are scarce.

Madame Doulce was there, of course?
Was she pleased with Felicie ?" And she added, with great humility: "I should indeed be happy if she could really make a hit.