“I am so very hot,” she said.

“Come into the hall.”

They passed into the long corridor, and walked up and down, for a time in silence.

“You felt that music?” he asked at last.

“As I never felt music before,” she replied.

“Do you know why I asked you to sing it?”

“How should I know?”

“To see how far you could go with it.”

“How far did I go?”

“As far as I expected.”