"It's the easiest instrument of all to make a show on, and it is the rarest sort of person who can play on it.

That's why, all those years, I have hated giving lessons.

If one has to, as I have had to, one must take any awful miss with a pigtail, and make a sham pianist of her.

One can always do that.
But it would be waste of time for you and me; you wouldn't want to be made a sham pianist, and simply I wouldn't make you one." Michael turned round.
"Good Lord!" he said, "the suspense is worse than I can bear.

Isn't there a piano in your room?
Can't we go down there, and have it over ?" "Yes, if you wish.