People prefer me always in something poetical and romantic, and this is new, and the mounting of it might be quite original.' 'And yet I doubt,' said Kendal; 'I think the part of Elvira wants variety, and would it not be well for you to have more of a change?
Something with more relief in it, something which would give your lighter vein, which comes in so well in the _White Lady_, more chance ?' She frowned a little and shook her head.

'My turn is not that way.

I can play a comedy part, of course--every actor ought to be able to--but I don't feel at home in it, and it never gives me pleasure to act.' 'I don't mean a pure light-comedy part, naturally, but something which would be less of a continuous tragic strain than this.

Why, almost all the modern tragic plays have their passages of relief, but the texture of _Elvira_ is so much the same throughout,--I cannot conceive a greater demand on any one.

And then you must consider your company.