Frankly, I cannot imagine a part less suited to Mr.Hawes than Macias; and his difficulties would react on you.' 'I can choose whom I like,' she said abruptly; 'I am not bound to Mr.
Hawes.' 'Besides,' he said cautiously, changing his ground a little, 'I should have said--only, of course, you must know much better--that it is a little risky to give the British public such very serious fare as this, and immediately after the _White Lady_.

The English theatre-goer never seems to me to take kindly to medievalism--kings and knights and nobles and the fifteenth century are very likely to bore him.

Not that I mean to imply for a moment that the play would be a failure in point of popularity.

You have got such a hold that you could carry anything through; but I am inclined to think that in _Elvira_ you would be rather fighting against wind and tide, and that, as I said before, it would be a great strain upon you.' 'The public makes no objection to Madame Desforets in Victor Hugo,' she answered quickly, even sharply.

'Her parts, so far as I know anything about them, are just these romantic parts, and she has made her enormous reputation out of them.' Kendal hesitated.