'I was thinking of the play itself, of how the part would really suit you.' 'Oh, I have no doubts at all about that,' she said, but with a quick look at him; 'I always feel at once when a part will suit me, and I have fallen in love with this one.

It is tragic and passionate, like the _White Lady_, but it is quite a different phase of passion.

I am tired of scolding and declaiming.

_Elvira_ will give me an opportunity of showing what I can do with something soft and pathetic.

I have had such difficulties in deciding upon a play to begin my October season with, and now this seems to me exactly what I want.