Note 82 — ELLEN TERRY
Reading edition
On one of her last American tours Miss Terry attended in New York the first night of a young playwright’s new work, and at the end of the third act he was presented to her. She congratulated him warmly: “It is very good,” she said, “your play is very good indeed, and I shall send all my American friends to see it.”
“In that case,” said the playwright, with a very low and courtly bow, “my little piece will sell ninety million tickets.”