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Miss Bretherton

CHAPTER V
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I was always laughed at for it as a child, I enjoy everything.' 'Including such a day as you had yesterday?
How _can_ you play the _White Lady_ twice in one day?
It's enough to wear you out.' 'Oh, everybody does it.

I was bound to give a _matinee_ to the profession some time, and yesterday had been fixed for it for ages.

But I have only given three _matinees_ altogether, and I shan't give another before my time is up.' 'That's a good hearing,' said Kendal.

'Do you get tired of the _White Lady_ ?' 'Yes,' she said emphatically; 'I am sick of her.

But,' she added, bending forward with her hands clasped on her knee, so that what she said could be heard by Kendal only; 'have you heard, I wonder, what I have in my head for the autumn?
Oh well, we must not talk of it now; I have no right to make it public yet.


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