While his voice had lost much of its freshness and power, his taste was pure and refined.

He kindled in the young girl's mind something of his own love and reverence for music on its own account.

To Madge, however, it would always remain a method of expression rather than a science or an art, and the old professor at last learned to recognize her limitations.

She would be excellent in only those phases of music which were in accord with her own feeling and thought.

She would not, perhaps could not, study it as he had done, for her woman's nature and the growing purpose of her life were ever in the ascendant; but under his guidance her taste grew purer and her knowledge and power increased rapidly.