'If you have got a subject in your head, give it to me.

I answer for the characters and the dialogue.' 'You answer for the characters and the dialogue,' Francis repeated.
'That's a bold way of speaking for a beginner! I wonder if I should shake your sublime confidence in yourself, if I suggested the most ticklish subject to handle which is known to the stage?
What do you say, Countess, to entering the lists with Shakespeare, and trying a drama with a ghost in it?
A true story, mind! founded on events in this very city in which you and I are interested.' She caught him by the arm, and drew him away from the crowded colonnade into the solitary middle space of the square.

'Now tell me!' she said eagerly.

'Here, where nobody is near us.

How am I interested in it?
How?
how ?' Still holding his arm, she shook him in her impatience to hear the coming disclosure.