Palmer had never had so successful a season.

He put money in his pocket and he paid his new star fairly well.
Two or three times a week for over a month Lavinia went to Gay's lodgings and rehearsed the songs she did not know and those also with which she was already acquainted.

The words Gay gave her to sing were not those to which she was accustomed and she found the change confusing.

Moreover, at each rehearsal some alterations in the words were made, occasionally by Gay, occasionally at the suggestion of Dr.
Arbuthnot.

But she never wearied, and so she was sufficiently rewarded for her trouble when Gay bestowed upon her a word of praise.
But Lancelot Vane?
He came not in spite of his earnest entreaty that she would meet him.