Read it through once

“All these alterations were to be _made in a fortnight_. The authoress was then to return to town with the play and superintend in person the rehearsals and the _getting-up_ of the piece; but at all events the work must be ready _in a fortnight_. In a fortnight the play was mangled and distorted, and fitted to Mr. Macready’s exaggerated and melo-dramatic measures of performing; the author arrived in London to attend the bringing-out of the play; she called on Mr. Macready with the manuscript; to her utter astonishment, he received her with the greatest coolness:—‘There was no hurry for the play. The managers had another piece at the theatre, which must at all events be produced first.’”