FUNNY ANECDOTES

Still, it's not easy to say to you what she hasn't. I'll tell you they were in love. Young and wild for each other. Happy in it, though they scraped and squabbles. She was going into seventeen when they came together the first time. It was after they'd been together the mark came on him. He didn't tell her. I don't know whether to blame him for that, but he didn't tell her. And when she found out, she was angry, but more, she was devastated. He was defensive and the same. So, it's been an open wound between them ever since. A dozen years of wanting and turmoil and too much distrust.

• When Sarah Siddons, the famous English actress, was a girl, her father, Roger Kemble, strictly forbade her to many an actor. One day, however, he was told that his daughter had secretly married one of the actors of his company. The enraged father rushed to punish the guilty ones. “How did you dare to disobey my orders?” he exclaimed, “You’ve married the worst actor in my company, who hardly deserves the name!”

“So, dear father, your orders have been obeyed!” said the young woman. “As my husband is so poor as a performer, he can hardly be called an actor.”