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AT Callydon the colors of life were being contrasted in bolder fashion and with more riotous effect. Vermilion was the prevailing dye. The sentimentalities had verged somewhat on heavy melodrama, and a suggestive voluptuousness in the staging had prolonged the play.
Two people mutually enamoured of an identical future are not long in coming to some understanding of each other's hearts, particularly if the hearts in question possess more of the human element than the divine.