"You could hardly be your mother's daughter without it." "Tell me," said Joan.

"What was my mother like?
I can only remember her as more or less of an invalid." He did not reply to her question.

"Master or Mistress Eminent Artist," he said; "intends to retire from his or her particular stage, whatever it may be.

That paragraph ought always to be put among the obituary notices." "What's your line ?" he asked her.

"I take it you have one by your being here.