"Do they indeed? Very kind and obliging of them, I'm sure."
"I hope it isn't true."
"Are you an enemy of the great and only Jacques then?" said Mr. Crayford.
"Monsieur Sennier? Oh, no! I was at the first performance of his Paradis Terrestre, and it altered my whole life."
"Well, they like it over in New York. And I've got to find another Paradise to put up against it just as quick as I know how."
"I do hope you'll be successful."
"I'll put Europe through my sieve anyway," said Mr. Crayford. "No man can do more. And very few men know the way to do as much. Are you interested in music?"
"Intensely."
She paused, looking at the little man before her. She was hesitating whether to tell him that she had married a musician or to refrain. Something told her to refrain, and she added:
"I've always lived among musical people and heard the best of everything."