"I should have thought _Romeo_ a character above all others to please you." Philippa has listened with a smile--nothing had escaped her.

Looking up, she said, with a bright laugh: "I cannot compliment you on being a good judge of character, Miss Byrton.

It may be perhaps that you have not known Lord Arleigh well enough.

But he is the last person in the world to make a good _Romeo._ I know but one character in Shakespeare's plays that would suit him." "And that ?" interrogated Lord Arleigh.
"That," replied Philippa, "is _Petruchio_;" and amidst a general laugh the conversation ended.
Miss Byrton was the first to take her departure.

Lord Arleigh lingered for some little time--he was still unconvinced.