I stayed in America, and was apprenticed to an electrical engineer.

I worked at the bench there for six years." "I suppose your father taught you to sing." "No.

He never gave me a lesson.

The fact is, Miss Lind, he was a capital man to teach stage tricks and traditional renderings of old operas; but only the exceptionally powerful voices survived his method of teaching.
He would have finished my career as a singer in two months if he had troubled himself to teach me.

Never go to Italy to learn singing." "I fear you are a cynic.