Read it through once

In addition to these Miss Mitford made, in 1813, an attempt to produce a play entitled _The King of Poland_, concerning which she wrote to her father that “it will be in five acts instead of three, and runs much more risk of being too long than too short. My favourite character is a little saucy page ... and who is, I think, almost a new character on the English stage. We have, it is true, pages in abundance, but then they commonly turn out to be love-lorn damsels in disguise. Now mine is a _bona-fide_ boy during the whole play.”