You see, I've seen so much of her lately, it slipped out when we were talking.' 'It was very natural,' said Kendal, glad to notice from Mrs.Stuart's way of attacking the subject that she knew nothing of his own share in the matter.

It would have embarrassed him to be conscious of another observer.

'Oh, a hundred things may turn up; there are ways out of these things if one is determined to find them.' Mrs.Stuart shook her head.

'She is so curiously bent upon it.

She is possessed with the idea that the play will suit her better than any she has had yet.