troubles to go through before she found a home in the house of a
sister, who had married a poor tailor.  About two months after she
had left Standingfield she married, in London, Mr.  Inchbald, an
actor, who had paid his addresses to her when she was at home, and
who was also a Roman Catholic.  On the evening of the wedding day
the bride, who had not yet succeeded in obtaining an engagement,
went to the play, and saw the bridegroom play the part of Mr.  Oakley
in the "Jealous Wife." Mr.  Inchbald was thirty-seven years old, and
had sons by a former marriage.  In September, 1772, Mrs.  Inchbald
tried her fortune on the stage by playing Cordelia to her husband's
Lear.  Beauty alone could not assure success.  The impediment in
speech made it impossible for Mrs.  Inchbald to succeed greatly as an
actress.  She was unable to realise her own conceptions.  At times
she and her husband prospered so little that on one day their dinner
was of turnips, pulled and eaten in a field, and sometimes there was
no dinner at all.  But better days presently followed; first
acquaintance of Mrs.  Inchbald with Mrs.  Siddons grew to a strong
friendship, and this extended to the other members of the Kemble
family.