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Martyn Ambrey, evidently desirous of showing me what a strongly individual viewpoint he possessed, told me that evening that he felt "Mr. Harter," as we all called him, in faint mimicry of his wife's invariable phrase, to be very much more worth seeing than the theatricals themselves.
I did not tell him that I felt exactly the same. He would probably not have believed me.