“It’s not very interesting. . . .”
“No?”—she continued to play.
“Nor very amusing. . . .”
She did not answer. He bore it for a little time longer, then he said:
“How much longer is it going to last, Lettie?”
“What?”
“That sort of business. . . .”
“The piano?—I’ll stop playing if you don’t like it.”
She did not, however, cease.
“Yes—and all this dry business.”