How delightfully, for instance, would some of the badinage between Morelove and the spirited Lady Betty have been treated in the earlier days of the Daly Company, with John Drew and Miss Rehan as the lovers.

We can picture the two, as they would have given the following lines, the one gentlemanly and effective, the other imperious, liquid-voiced, and radiant of humour: * * * * * "MORELOVE.

Do you know, madame, I have just found out, that upon your account I have made myself one of the most ridiculous puppies upon the face of the earth--I have upon my faith! Nay, and so extravagantly such--ha! ha! ha!--that it's at last become a jest even to myself; and I can't help laughing at it for the soul of me; ha! ha! ha! "LADY BETTY.

[_Aside_.] I want to cure him of that laugh now.

My lord, since you are so generous, I'll tell you another secret.