"I understand that You taught music
there?"
"Miss Sarona, I had no real pupils. I

frepared them for the lessons of those T^hom
aespised; and yet I should also have
derotsed them had they been my own pupils :
for I find that all teachers are not masters,
and that most pupils ^o not learn. It would
take a Ions-, long time to tell you my many
reasonji. but I am sure that I could get
enough pupils to whom I could teach some
things they have never known, in any place :

— enough to keep me, for it is not much I
want ; and it is no hardship to me, but para*
disc, to live alone. I tell you these things
about myself, because I do not choose you to
be iffnorant of how little use I am, yet that I
can be of some use. For the same reason, I
wish you would hear me sing ; you caa then
tell iJr. Sarona whether I am competent to
teach, and I shall not have to sing to Aim."

** You need not be the least timid in sing-
ing to Aim, for although he is a much better
musician than I am, and understands music
perfectlv as a science, yet he is so passionately
fond of it that he scarcely ever criticises
while it is going on."

** But then, you see, that would be of no
use to me, as I require criticism. But it is
not because I am timid of Dr. Sarona that I
do not wish to sing to him, for I should not
mind it at alL It is because I do not choose
to take up his time. 