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 "When one comes to think it over it is good to have lived. A girl who has always been good and never had any scandal about her is fortunate in more ways than one. On the other hand, not one of them will ever be anything. By anything I mean just that. They will, perhaps, be good wives and mothers, but whether it is ambition or foolish, I mean to be a good actress first.

"Of course, I can't live here all the time. And I can't forget all the old people. They do not know what they are doing here, but give them a chance to get away and see what they would do. If I stay here long I'll get just like the rest. I am very susceptible and I'll soon be a "

"From the time you first became intimate with Thaw in 1903 until the shooting of White, June 25, 1906, did you ever see anything in Thaw's condition that was irrational?" asked Mr. Jerome.

"Yes."

Mrs. Thaw then detailed several instances. She said that one night while on Broadway in a cab, she and Thaw saw White. Thaw became much excited.

"I don't know what you would call it," she said, "but I would call it a fit. He cried and sobbed, and bit his nails and talked rapidly."

"Did you ever see a man in an epileptic fit?" asked Mr. Jerome.

"I've seen cats."

There was considerable laughter.