“Are you a Catholic?”
“A Calvinist, Fraulein.”
“And devoted to the Prince’s cause?”
“Say rather, the cause of liberty.”
“That accounts for the drumming of the war-song.”
“It was first a gentle gavotte, but impatience quickened the time. I am a musician, Fraulein.”
“But probably no drummer. The poor panes!”
“They are an instrument like any other, and in playing we seek to express what we feel.”
“Then accept my thanks for not breaking them to pieces.”
“That wouldn’t have been beautiful, Fraulein, and art ceases when ugliness begins.”