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In the hands of Shaw,
Barker, Masefield, Galsworthy, and Hankin, it, too, had an air of
saying something, but he found it extremely difficult to join on to
his own demands upon life anything whatever that the intellectual
drama had the air of having said. He would sit forward in the front
row of the dress-circle with his cheek on his hand and his brow
slightly knit. His intentness amused observant people. The drama
that did not profess to be intellectual he went to with Lady
Marayne, and usually on first nights. Lady Marayne loved a big
first night at St. James's Theatre or His Majesty's. Afterwards,
perhaps, Sir Godfrey would join them at a supper party, and all
sorts of clever and amusing people would be there saying keen
intimate things about each other. He met Yeats, who told amusing
stories about George Moore, and afterwards he met George Moore, who
told amusing stories about Yeats, and it was all, he felt, great fun
for the people who were in it. But he was not in it, and he had no
very keen desire to be in it. It wasn't his stuff.


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