(As he begins to play, a deathlike silence falls upon the hall.)
One of the Critics
What rotten pedaling!
Another Critic
A touch like a xylophone player, but he knows how to use his feet. That suggests a good line for the notice—“he plays better with his feet than with his hands,” or something like that. I’ll have to think it over and polish it up.
One of the Other Men
Now comes some more of that awful classical stuff.
The Virgin
Suppose he can’t speak English? But that wouldn’t matter. Nothing matters. Love is beyond and above——