I thought, on the whole, it would be better not to make a fuss about it when it came to the last.

You see she must look upon me to some extent as a critical, if not a hostile, influence, and I did not wish to remind her of my existence.' 'Oh well,' said Mrs.Stuart in her cheery commonsense way, 'that evening was such an overwhelming experience that I don't suppose she could have felt any soreness towards anybody.

And, do you know, she _is_ improved?
I don't quite know what it is, but certainly one or two of those long scenes she does more intelligently, and even the death-scene is better,--less monotonous.

I sometimes think she will surprise us all yet.' 'Very likely,' said Kendal absently, not in reality believing a word of it, but it was impossible to dissent.
'I hope so,' exclaimed Mrs.Stuart, 'with all my heart.

She has been very depressed often these last weeks, and certainly, on the whole, people have been harder upon her than they were at first.