It's only what every one whose opinion is worth having is beginning to say.

My acting has been a nightmare to me lately.

I believe it has all been a great, great mistake.' Kendal never felt a keener hatred of the conventions which rule the relations between men and women.

Could he only simply have expressed his own feeling, he would have knelt beside her on the path, have taken the trembling hands in his own, and comforted her as a woman would have done.
But as it was, he could only stand stiff and awkward before her, and yet it seemed to him as if the whole world had resolved itself into his own individuality and hers, and as if the gay river party and the bright friendly relations of an hour before were separated from the present by an impassable gulf.

And, worst of all, there seemed to be a strange perversity in his speech--a fate which drove him into betraying every here and there his own real standpoint whether he would or no.
'You must not say such things,' he said, as calmly as he could.