'How?'
'Well, he asked Archie to sing a few notes.'
'And did he?'
'Yes, he did. But they weren't the notes Landi asked him to sing.'
'Oh!'
'Then Landi played him two tunes, and found he didn't know one from the other.'
'Well, what of that?'
'Nothing at all. Except that it showed he had no ear, as well as no voice. That is all.'
Madame Frabelle would never own she was beaten.
'Ah, well, well,' she said, shaking her head in an oracular way. 'You wait!'