ABSTRACT
During this period in Neuilly the idea of going on the stage no longer urged the author to any outward effort. On one occasion Natalie wanted to get up some theatricals in her garden, and this gave him a momentary spurt of energy. Collette and the author were slated to act the "Dialogue au Soleil Couchant" by Pierre Louys, as she has charmingly recorded in her autobiography "Mes Apprentissages". After that, his dreams of great tragedy having culminated and probably terminated in a pretty garden party, he went for a while across the Channel. In traveling about, he happened to see, in Glasgow, an announcement that the Beerbohm Trees were acting that night in Hamlet, he went back of the scenes to see them before the play, and Mrs. Tree, who was in a rather gay mood, asked him to come on the stage with them.
