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John for a few days while I'm out of town.’ — You must hate writing an interview every week.”
“They’re not all like this one,” I owned.
“But what if you hadn’t been nice to my opening in this morning’s paper? What if you’d said mean, witty things about me ?”
“One can’t be witty without being mean?”
“It doesn’t seem so, does it?” she most humanly answered. “Did you ever hear of anybody remembering what a critic said in a ‘good notice’?”
“No.”
“But I’d have been awfully uncomfortable for you if you’d been mean to me in this morning’s paper. I once sat at a dinner with a man that had written the meanest — because it was so horribly true — thing in the world about me. He was Franklin P. Adams, and he had said that in ‘The Wren’ I suffered from fallen archness. He was most uncomfortable at dinner; he seemed to feel that he had to live up to his line. He was stiff and cold — that’s the way it reacted on him. And I felt so sorry for him. Finally he said, ‘I hope you don’t dislike me for what I wrote.’ ” “I hope you don’t dislike me,” I said, “for what I didn’t write. The play caught me and took so much of my space.”
“I knew — and, besides, I liked better just the few incisive words. They gave me a little choke — here. But if you’d been mean I should probably have had tea waiting (you’re sure you won’t have some, anyway?) and been all on edge to spare your feelings. I’d have been — well, you know how two women will cover a situation with a kiss.”
“You don’t mean that if I had ?”
“No, I don’t think I should have gone quite that far,” she comforted.