"Why, their Duchess Helene! If they think I'm going to play

Geraldine, a part with nothing in it, a scene and nothing besides--

if they think that! Besides, that isn't the reason. The fact is

I've had enough of courtesans. Why, there's no end to 'em! They'll

be fancying I've got 'em on the brain; to be sure they will!

Besides, when all's said and done, it's annoying, for I can quite

see they seem to think me uneducated. Well, my boy, they're jolly

well in the dark about it, I can tell you! When I want to be a