Leesten, then.

You haf a voice than which there is not one so good in the whole of Europe.
It is superb--marvellous--the voice of the century.

With that voice you will haf the whole world at your feet; before long you will command almost fabulous fees, and more, far more than this, you can interpret the music of the great masters as they themselves would wish to hear it.

Me, Baroni, I know it.

And you would fling such possibilities, such a career, aside for mere matrimony! It is nonsense, I tell you, sheer nonsense!" He paused for breath, and Diana laid her hand deprecatingly on his arm.
"Dear _Maestro_," she said, "it's good of you to tell me all this, and--and you mustn't think for one moment that I ever forget all you've done for me.