"Plays are a bore; but I've never seen a rehearsal in ordinary clothes. Might be a bit funny. Somehow, nowadays, one can never find a thing one's never seen." "Now, Mr. Mandeville," said Miss Talbot, tapping him on the arm with animated persistence, "you simply must let us see that rehearsal. We can't come to-night, and we don't want to. We want to see all the funny people in the wrong clothes." "Of course I can give you a box if you wish it," said Mandeville hastily. "Perhaps your ladyship would come this way." And he led them off down another corridor. "I wonder," said Jarvis in a meditative manner, "whether even Mandeville prefers that sort of woman." "Well," asked his clerical companion, "have you any reason to suppose that Mandeville does prefer her?" Jarvis looked at him