'You have charmed the English public as no one else has ever charmed it.

Is not that a great thing to have done?
And if I, who am very fastidious and very captious, and over-critical in a hundred ways--if I am inclined to think that a part is rather more than you, with your short dramatic experience, can compass quite successfully, why, what does it matter?
I may be quite wrong.

Don't take any notice of my opinion: forget it, and let me help you, if I can, by talking over the play.' She shook her head with a bitter little smile.

'No, no; I shall never forget it.

Your attitude only brought home to me, almost more strongly than I could bear, what I have suspected a long, long time--the _contempt_ which people like you and Mr.Wallace feel for me!' 'Contempt!' cried Kendal, beside himself, and feeling as if all the criticisms he had allowed himself to make of her were recoiling in one avenging mass upon his head.