— XIII —THE LEADING LADY
In the meantime Miss Ludlow and Mr. Smithers were enjoying the play at the Pandora Theatre. Or rather, perhaps, it should be written that Miss Ludlow was, while Mr. Smithers sunned himself in her society. It is probable that the lady’s capacity for enjoyment was greater than the gentleman’s. She was possessed of an unspoiled appetite for pleasure which found delight in everything. To her a theatre was an abode of romance; the mimic traffic of the stage a perpetual joy. She had not arrived at that period when one sits in judgement. Unfortunately, the gentleman had. His experience of the contemporary drama was so extensive that it required unusual fare to titillate his palate. He found his companion’s satisfaction with what she saw much more charming than the thing
