"Yes, sir;" but I did not tell him I was going to practise with her, for fear anything should prevent my going.
"She is an excellent young person, and will be a true artist. Nevertheless, remember my injunction,—rather too few friends than too many."
"I mean to keep friends with her, and to make my sister friends with her."
"Your sister does not want friends, I should think."
"Oh, sir, did you ever find out who the conductor was?"
"Nobody knows. It is very singular," and he raised his voice, "that he has never been heard of since, and had not been seen before by anybody present, though so many foreign professors were in the hall. In London they persist it was Milans-André, though André has himself contradicted the assertion."
"I should like to hear Milans-André."
"You will some day, no doubt."
"Do you think I shall?"