He returned quickly to the first subject.
“I myself did not by chance have anything of a musical education?” he asked.
“You?”
“Joe.”
She laughed.
“No,” she answered. “You refused to practice.”
“It is just as well. Yet I remember the story of a French prisoner who to save his life, learned to play upon a trumpet in a single night.”
“Luckily you won’t need to do that but I think you could.”
“Luckily for Mr. Langdon. Otherwise we should have a trio.”
She had risen and was now nearing the door.