convinced.

Milverton. But these annoyances need not be. Build a theatre of
moderate dimensions; give it great facility of approach; take care
that the performances never exceed three hours; let lions and dwarfs
pass by without any endeavour to get them within the walls; lay
aside all ambition of making stage waves which may almost equal real
Ramsgate waves to our cockney apprehensions. Of course there must
be good players and good plays.

Ellesmere. Now we come to the part of Hamlet.

Milverton. Good players and good plays are both to be had if there
were good demand for them. But, I was going to say, let there be
all these things, especially let there be complete ventilation, and
the theatre will have the most abundant success. Why, that one
thing alone, the villainous atmosphere at most public places, is
enough to daunt any sensible man from going to them.

Dunsford. There should be such a choice of plays--not merely
Chamberlain-clipt--as any man or woman could go to.

Milverton. There should be certainly, but how is such a choice to
be made, if the people who could regulate it, for the most part,
stay away? It is a dangerous thing, the better classes leaving any
great source of amusement and instruction wholly, or greatly, to the
less refined classes.

Dunsford. Yes, I must confess it is.