"I wish I could sing like that!" "I wish I could paint a 'Face of a Girl,'" smiled the tenor as he turned from the piano.
"Oh, but, Mr.Arkwright, don't stop," objected Billy, springing to her feet and going to her music cabinet by the piano.

"There's a little song of Nevin's I want you to sing.

There, here it is.

Just let me play it for you." And she slipped into the place the singer had just left.
It was the beginning of the end.

After Nevin came De Koven, and after De Koven, Gounod.