Le Morning Post disait :
Very brief are the words spoken before Phèdre rushes into the room to commence tremblingly and nervously, with struggles which rend and tear and convulse the system, the secret of her shameful love. As her passion mastered what remainded of modesty or reserve in her nature, the woman sprang forward and recoiled again with the movements of a panther, striving, as it seemed to tear from her bosom the heart which stifled her with its unholy longings, until in the end, when terrified at the horror her breathings have provoked in Hippolyte, she strove to pull his sword from its sheath and plunge it in her own breast she fell back in complète and absolute colapse. This exhibition marvellous in beauty of pose, in febrile force, in intensity, and in purity of delivery, is the more remarkable as the passion had to be reached, so to speak, at a bound, no performance ot the first act having roused the actress to the requisite beat. It proves Mlle Sarah Bernhardt worthy of her réputation, and shows what may be expected from her by the public which has eagerly expected her coming.
Cette première soirée à Londres fut définitive pour mon avenir.
