THE PARS0N. But you need n't talk of nature or naturalness in actingor in anything. I tell you nature is poor stuff. It can't go alone.Amateur acting--they get it up at church sociables nowadays--is aptto be as near nature as a school-boy's declamation. Acting is theDevil's art.

THE MISTRESS. Do you object to such innocent amusement?

MANDEVILLE. What the Parson objects to is, that he isn't amused.