ON THE EVE OF TRIUMPH 'I have got your letter, but it tells me no more than the last did.

Why don't you say plainly what you mean?
I suppose it's something you are ashamed of.

You say that there's a chance for me of earning a large sum of money, and if you are in earnest, I shall be only too glad to hear how it's to be done.

This life is no better than what I used to lead years ago; I'm no nearer to getting a good part than I was when I first began acting, and unless I can get money to buy dresses and all the rest of it, I may go on for ever at this hateful drudgery.

I shall take nothing more from you: I say it, and I mean it; but as you tell me that this chance has nothing to do with yourself, let me know what it really is.