"But I know you don't like anybody to ask much of you."
"Never mind, my child, ask anything you like."
"What will you…. Tell me, what are you accustomed to do with your forenoons?"
"Oh, I spend them in all sorts of ways. To-morrow, for instance, I am playing the violin solo in Haydn's Mass in the Lerchenfeld Church."
"Really? Then, of course, I won't have to wait any longer than to-morrow morning before I can hear you."
"If you want to. But it is really not worth the trouble…. That is to say, the Mass itself, of course, is very beautiful."
"However does it happen that you are going to play in the
Lerchenfeld Church?"
"It is … an act of kindness on my part."
"For whom?"
"For whom … well, for Haydn, of course."