Read it through once

Mrs. S. C. Hall, in her _Memories_, gives us a delightful picture of the flurry and bustle which preceded the _Rienzi_ production, a bustle which was accentuated by an alteration of the date to one week earlier. Miss Mitford was up in town superintending the arrangements, lodging meanwhile at the house of her friend, Mrs. Hofland, in Newman Street. “Mrs. Hofland invited us to meet her there one morning. All the world was talking about the expected play, and all the world was paying court to its author.