I myself never saw such a change, such an extraordinary development in any one.

How was it that you and I did not see farther into her?
I see now, as I look back upon her old self, that the new self was there in germ.

But I think perhaps it may have been the vast disproportion of her celebrity to her performance that blinded us to the promise in her; it was irritation with the public that made us deliver an over-hasty verdict on her.
'However that may be, I have been making up my mind for some days past that the embassy on behalf of _Elvira_, which I thrust upon you, and which you so generously undertook, was a blunder on my part which it would be delightful to repair, and which no artistic considerations whatever need prevent me from repairing.

You cannot think how divine she was in Juliet the other night.

Imperfect and harsh, of course, here and there, but still a creature to build many and great hopes upon, if ever there was one.