I am in no want of money just now, and I had set my heart on the thing's being really good--well written and well acted.

Well, Agnes, in a rash moment two or three days ago, and without consulting me, told Miss Bretherton the whole story of the play, and said that she supposed I should soon want somebody to bring it out for me.

Miss Bretherton was enormously struck with the plot, as Agnes told it to her, and the next time I saw her she insisted that I should read some scenes from it to her--' 'Good heavens! and now she has offered to produce it and play the principal part in it herself,' interrupted Kendal.
Wallace nodded.

'Just so; you see, my relations with her are so friendly that it was impossible for me to say no.

But I never was in a greater fix.