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"
She
’
s
very
pretty
,
you
know
.
"
"
It
looks
to
me
as
though
it
’
s
going
to
be
a
crashing
bore
today
.
"
"
I
hope
Tom
won
’
t
find
it
so
,
"
she
said
,
as
though
she
were
seriously
concerned
.
Roger
remained
silent
.
The
day
passed
exactly
as
she
had
hoped
.
It
was
true
that
she
saw
little
of
Tom
,
but
Roger
saw
less
.
Tom
made
a
great
hit
with
the
Dennorants
;
he
explained
to
them
how
they
could
get
out
of
paying
as
much
income
-
tax
as
they
did
.
He
listened
respectfully
to
the
Chancellor
while
he
discoursed
on
the
stage
and
to
Archie
Dexter
while
he
gave
his
views
on
tbe
political
situation
.
Julia
was
at
the
top
of
her
form
.
Archie
Dexter
had
a
quick
wit
,
a
fund
of
stage
stories
and
a
wonderful
gift
for
telling
them
;
between
the
two
of
them
they
kept
the
table
during
luncheon
laughing
uproariously
;
and
after
tea
,
when
the
tennis
players
were
tired
of
playing
tennis
,
Julia
was
persuaded
(
not
much
against
her
will
)
to
do
her
imitations
of
Gladys
Cooper
,
Constance
Collier
and
Gertie
Lawrence
.
But
Julia
did
not
forget
that
Charles
Tamerley
was
her
devoted
,
unrewarded
lover
,
and
she
took
care
to
have
a
little
stroll
alone
with
him
in
the
gloaming
.
With
him
she
sought
to
be
neither
gay
nor
brilliant
,
she
was
tender
and
wistful
.
Her
heart
ached
,
notwithstanding
the
scintillating
performance
she
had
given
during
the
day
;
and
it
was
with
almost
complete
sincerity
that
with
sighs
,
sad
looks
and
broken
sentences
,
she
made
him
understand
that
her
life
was
hollow
and
despite
the
long
continued
success
of
her
career
she
could
not
but
feel
that
she
had
missed
something
.
Sometimes
she
thought
of
the
villa
at
Sorrento
on
the
bay
of
Naples
.
A
beautiful
dream
.
Happiness
might
have
been
hers
for
the
asking
,
perhaps
,
she
had
been
a
fool
;
after
all
what
were
the
triumphs
of
the
stage
but
illusion
?
Pagliacci
.
People
never
realized
how
true
that
was
;
Vesti
la
giubba
and
all
that
sort
of
thing
.
She
was
desperately
lonely
.
Of
course
there
was
no
need
to
tell
Charles
that
her
heart
ached
not
for
lost
opportunities
,
but
because
a
young
man
seemed
to
prefer
playing
golf
with
her
son
to
making
love
to
her
.
But
then
Julia
and
Archie
Dexter
got
together
.
After
dinner
when
they
were
all
sitting
in
the
drawing
-
room
,
without
warning
,
starting
with
a
few
words
of
natural
conversation
they
burst
,
as
though
they
were
lovers
,
into
a
jealous
quarrel
.
For
a
moment
the
rest
did
not
realize
it
was
a
joke
till
their
mutual
accusations
became
so
outrageous
and
indecent
that
they
were
consumed
with
laughter
.
Then
they
played
an
extempore
scene
of
an
intoxicated
gentleman
picking
up
a
French
tart
in
Jermyn
Street
.
After
that
,
with
intense
seriousness
,
while
their
little
audience
shook
with
laughter
,
they
did
Mrs
.
Alving
in
Ghosts
trying
to
seduce
Pastor
Manders
.
They
finished
with
a
performance
that
they
had
given
often
enough
before
at
theatrical
parties
to
enable
them
to
do
it
with
effect
.
This
was
a
Chekhov
play
in
English
,
but
in
moments
of
passion
breaking
into
something
that
sounded
exactly
like
Russian
.
Julia
exercised
all
her
great
gift
for
tragedy
,
but
underlined
it
with
a
farcical
emphasis
,
so
that
the
effect
was
incredibly
funny
.
She
put
into
her
performance
the
real
anguish
of
her
heart
,
and
with
her
lively
sense
of
the
ridiculous
made
a
mock
of
it
.
The
audience
rolled
about
in
their
chairs
;
they
held
their
sides
,
they
groaned
in
an
agony
of
laughter
.
Perhaps
Julia
had
never
acted
better
.
She
was
acting
for
Tom
and
for
him
alone
.
"
I
’
ve
seen
Bernhardt
and
Rejane
,
"
said
the
Chancellor
;
"
I
’
ve
seen
Duse
and
Ellen
Terry
and
Mrs
.
Kendal
.
Nunc
dimittis
.
"
Julia
,
radiant
,
sank
back
into
a
chair
and
swallowed
at
a
draught
a
glass
of
champagne
.
