I was almost in despair--she said so little--until, just as I was going away with _Elvira's_ fate still quite unsettled, she said to me with a smile and a warm pressure of the hand, "To-morrow come and see me, and I will tell you yes or no!" 'And to-day I have been to see her, and the night has brought good luck! For _Elvira_, my dear Kendal, will be produced on or about the 20th November, in this year of grace, and Isabel Bretherton will play the heroine, and your friend is already plunged in business, and aglow with hope and expectation.

How I wish--how we all wish--that you were here! I feel more and more penitent towards you.

It was you who gave the impulse of which the results are ripening, and you ought to be here with us now, playing in the body that friend's part which we all yield you so readily in spirit.

"Tell Mr.Kendal," were almost her last words to me, "that I cannot say how much I owe to his influence and his friendship.

He first opened my eyes to so many things.