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Updated: October 8, 2025
There's too much good stuff in Haxard; I can't throw away what I've done on it." "That is just what I was thinking, Brice! It would be too bad to lose that. The love-business as you've remodeled it is all very well. But it is light; it's comedy; and Haxard is such splendid tragedy. I want you to make your first impression in that.
He would have to invent some other love-business if he cut this out, but still it could be done. Then it suddenly flashed upon him that there was something easier yet, and that was to abandon the notion of getting his piece played at all, and to turn it into a novel.
"The whole thing is a mess, and you seem to delight in tormenting me about it. How am I to give the love-business charm, and yet keep it in the background?" "I should think you could." "How?" "Well, I was afraid you would give Salome too much prominence." "Didn't you know whether I had done so or not? You knew what I had done before Godolphin came!"
"Brice, I want your play to be thoroughly honest and true from beginning to end, and not to have any sort of catchpenny effectivism in it. You have planned it so nobly that I can't bear to have you lower the standard the least bit; and I think the honest and true way is to let the love-business be a pleasant fact in the case, as it might very well be.
"I don't know what they might think of you, though, if there was any such elaborate display of concealment as you've got up here." "Oh, this is merely rehearsing. Of course, I shall be more adroit, more careless, when I really come to it. But what I mean is that when we first see it together, the love-business, I shall want to feel that you are feeling every instant just as I do. Will you?"
He praised it warmly, but he said that it would be hard to find a woman to do the part of Salome. "That is the principal part in the piece now, you know," he added. "I don't see how," Maxwell protested. "It seems to me that her character throws Haxard's into greater relief than before, and gives it more prominence." "You've made the love-business too strong, I think.
"And I wouldn't have hair like corn-silk," he returned. "At least not on my own head." "Yes, it is coarse. And it's yours quite as much as mine," she said, thoughtfully. "We do belong to each other utterly, don't we? I never thought of it in that light before. And now our life has gone into your work, already! I can't tell you, Brice, how sweet it is to think of that love-business being our own!
That love-business seems to me perfect just as it is, but I know you won't be satisfied till you have put the very last touch on it." "Yes, I see all sorts of things I can do to it. Louise!" "Well, what?" "Don't you see that the love-business is the play now?
There is no love-business in the Odyssey except the return of a bald elderly married man to his elderly wife and grown-up son after an absence of twenty years, and furious at having been robbed of so much money in the meantime. But this can hardly be called love-business; it is at the utmost domesticity.
I have got to throw away all the sin-interest, all the Haxard situation, or keep them together as they are, and write a new play altogether, with the light, semi-comic motive of the love-business for the motive of the whole. It's out of tone with Haxard's tragedy, and it can't be brought into keeping with it.
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