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"I promise you, mother." "And you will be careful of wine, Roddy? You are young and unused to it." "Yes, mother." "And play-actresses also, Roddy. And you will not cast your underclothing until June is in. Young Master Overton came by his death through it. Think well of your dress, Roddy, so as to do your uncle credit, for it is the thing for which he is himself most famed.
Meanwhile Rosemary ate, not knowing what she ate, choking down her food with glass after glass of water which by no means assuaged the inner fires. While she was washing the breakfast dishes the other two were discussing Mrs. Lee's hair. Grandmother insisted that it was a wig, as play-actresses always wore them and Mrs. Lee was undoubtedly a play-actress. "How do you know?"
One of our thoughts, though neither uttered it, was that, despite the reputation that play-actresses generally bore, a woman could live virtuously by the profession, and in it, and that several women since the famous Mrs. Bracegirdle were allowed to have done so. 'Twas only necessary to look at our Madge, to turn the possibility in her case into certainty.
But these young ladies of the new style must be Ediths and Eleanors and Ophelias, and all that heathenish kind of thing, as if they were princesses of the blood or play-actresses, instead of being good Christian Susans and Janes and Betties, like their grandmothers were before them. And Miss Edith, now, what is SHE doing?
Anne looked startled. 'He's up to the gunnel in love! We must try to help him on in it, or I fear he'll go melancholy-mad like. 'We help him? she asked faintly. 'He's lost his heart to one of the play-actresses at Budmouth, and I think she slights him. 'O, I am so glad! she exclaimed. 'Glad that his venture don't prosper? 'O no; glad he's so sensible.
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