Her eyes were full
of tears when he read her the last words of the finished work, and
she murmured, divinely -
"And now--to get it done, to get it done!"
"Yes, indeed--to get it done!" Wayworth stared at the fire, slowly
rolling up his type-copy. "But that's a totally different part of
the business, and altogether secondary."
"But of course you want to be acted?"
"Of course I do--but it's a sudden descent. I want to intensely, but
I'm sorry I want to."
"It's there indeed that the difficulties begin," said Mrs. Alsager, a
little off her guard.
"How can you say that? It's there that they end!"
"Ah, wait to see where they end!"
"I mean they'll now be of a totally different order," Wayworth
explained. "It seems to me there can be nothing in the world more
difficult than to write a play that will stand an all-round test, and
that in comparison with them the complications that spring up at this
point are of an altogether smaller kind."
"Yes, they're not inspiring," said Mrs. Alsager; "they're
discouraging, because they're vulgar.
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