Mrs.Patrick Campbell was good enough to allow me to rewrite the first act for the fiftieth performance, and it ran, if I remember rightly, some 130 nights.

About the twentieth representation I paid Smithers.
For the first weeks of the run I was bombarded with letters from Oscar, begging money and demanding money in every tone.

He made nothing of the fact that I had already paid him three times the price agreed upon, and paid Smithers to boot, and lost through his previous sales of the scenario whatever little repute the success of the piece might have brought me.

Nine people out of ten believed that Oscar had written the play and that I had merely lent my name to the production in order to enable him, as a bankrupt, to receive the money from it.

Even men of letters deceived themselves in this way.