Irving's Pathos

During ,i performance at. the Lyceum theater in Londou Sir Henry Irving was rather distracted by the remarks of two well dressed woraen occupying adjoining stal Is. At ]ast, in the coürse of their cou-vorsatiou, oue of them said, "Quite too nice, isn't it?" "Oh, quite more than too uioe!" aiiswered her companiou. "Ouly doesn't it strike you - a little veakness in the knees?" "Weakness!" retorted her frieud. "My dear girl, that's his pathos. "