Ultimately it turned out that
the detective was to be employed by _Miss Ussher_ (aunt) to verify her
suspicions with regard to the morals of _Constance_. But I shall never get
you to believe me when I say that the subject was not so much as touched
again till the final Act.
I have spoken of the incongruous stuff of which old _Jacob Ussher's_ heart
was constructed. That strange organ was hard enough to make him give his
daughter away to his secretary in the matter of the forgery; but when it
came to a question of the exposure of her relations with her lover this
same heart was found to be of the consistency of putty.
I hope I shall not seem guilty of _Constance's_ indiscretion if I politely
wonder how it was that so astute a judge as Miss MARIE LOeHR accepted this
play. Actor-managers, of course, have been known to produce indifferent
work for the sake of a good acting part for themselves. If that was her
motive I think she must have imagined a fine subtlety in a character which
was difficult only because it was loosely conceived.
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