In the mean time, the hotel doesn't seem likely to supply me with the subject of a piece.

A terrible smell from an invisible ghost is a perfectly new idea.

But it has one drawback.
If I realise it on the stage, I shall drive the audience out of the theatre.' As his strong common sense arrived at this facetious conclusion, he became aware of a lady, dressed entirely in black, who was observing him with marked attention.

'Am I right in supposing you to be Mr.
Francis Westwick ?' the lady asked, at the moment when he looked at her.
'That is my name, madam.

May I inquire to whom I have the honour of speaking ?' 'We have only met once,' she answered a little evasively, 'when your late brother introduced me to the members of his family.