I was giving concerts there at the time; but she refused to sing in my concerts, and therefore she did not even hear me.
MR.

SILVER (_whom the excitement of the singing has at length reached_).
Do you feel inclined now, Madam, to execute with me the duet from "The Creation," between Adam and Eve?
MRS.GOLD.Here is "The Creation," but we will sing it by and by.

Mr.
Forte is just going to play us his latest composition for the left hand, and some of the music of that romantic, deeply sensitive Chopin.
MR.

GOLD (_rushes in from his stock discussion_).

Oh, yes! Chopin's B major mazourka! That was also played at my house by Henselt, Thalberg, and Dreyschock.