We talked the theatre, of course, the ways of different actors, the fortunes of managers.

Isabel Bretherton naturally has as yet seen very little; her comments were mainly personal, and all of a friendly, enthusiastic kind, for the profession has been very cordial to her.

A month or five weeks more and her engagement at the _Calliope_ will be over.

There are other theatres open to her, of course, and all the managers are at her feet; but she has set her heart upon going abroad for some time, and has, I imagine, made so much money this season that the family cannot in decency object to her having her own way.

"I am wild to get to Italy," she said to me in her emphatic, impetuous way.