The sights in the streets had become rather an old story by this
time, and there was not much to be said about them.
"Have you recovered from the fatigues of Saturday, Mrs. Belgrave?" asked
Lord Tremlyn.
"Entirely, my Lord. I am quite ready for the next item in your programme,"
replied the lady.
"How did you enjoy the play, madam?" inquired Sir Modava.
"As a religious exhibition, from my point of view, it was a failure."
"It does not convey much of an idea of even the mythology of the Hindus,"
added Professor Giroud. "If Krishna was a divinity, or even an incarnation
of one, he is a very bad representation of the piety and morality of the
gods. The affair was well enough as a love-story, but the conclusion looked
like a pleasant satire on those authors who insist that their tales and
novels shall have an agreeable ending;" and the professor indulged in a
hearty laugh as he recalled the manner in which Satyavama had been brought
back to life by the divinity in yellow paint.
"I like that kind of a winding up of a story, and I don't like the other
kind," added the magnate of the Fifth Avenue. "We read novels, if we read
them at all, for the fun of it, with some incidental information in the
right direction. When I was a young man I had a taste for the sea, as most
boys have, and I read Marryat's novels with immense pleasure.
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