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ROLE-PLAYING Jean Muir is a player of roles, she is an actress by profession and plays her roles well. Moreover she is fully aware of the need to play roles and distinguishes clearly between role-playing and her true self. In her letters to Hortense revealed in the last chapter describes this well: 'I had the audacity to say I was nineteen, to talk scotch..' But in the opening chapter we are immediately alerted to the fact that this is a mask and not her true identity: 'my glass showed me an old woman of thirty, for my false locks were off, my paint gone, and my face was without its mask' She plays different roleswith different people - choosing the most appropriate and effective: With Sir John, ' afew artless compliments to himself, and he was charmed' With Edward ' I risked my neck to pet his beast and he was charmed' With Bella: ' I made...

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