This dovetailed with what Johnny Two-Hawks had told her that night.
"How the two came together originally I don't know.

Gregor was in his younger days a great violinist, but unknown to the American public.
Early in his career he speculated with his concert earnings and turned a pot of money.

He dropped the professional career for that of a country gentleman.

He had a handsome estate, and lived sensibly.

He sent Hawksley to England to school and spent a good deal of time there with him, teaching him how to play the fiddle, for which it seems Hawksley had a natural bent.