Clara Hopgood - Page 28/105

'Why not, miss? YOUR opinion, mind, was not asked. Did I not act to

perfection last night?' 'Yes.'

'Then why are you so decisive?'

'Try a different part some day. I may be mistaken.'

'You are very oracular.' She turned to the piano, played a few chords, closed the instrument,

swung herself round on the music stool, and said she should go for a walk.