You must admit I was most enthusiastic about your performance as Achilles. Oh, yes. Yes,...

Hector Snipe: You must admit I was most enthusiastic about your performance as Achilles. Edward Lionheart: Oh, yes. Yes, now that you mention it, I vaguely recall you wrote some review. Hector Snipe: I remember it very well. I wrote, Edward Lionheart's Troilus and Cressida must be considered as a brilliant theatrical achievement, and his own performance as Achilles unsurpassed. Well, something of that sort. Edward Lionheart: A splendid review, my dear Snipe. Splendid. What else did you say? Hector Snipe: More in the same vein. Edward Lionheart: Let me refresh your memory. [reads] Edward Lionheart: ...Achilles unsurpassed. This clearly is Lionheart's own view. That actor's oft-expressed desire for solitude is well known. He must derive much satisfaction in knowing that he is absolutely alone in his opinion of this lamentable production.