But I shall never forget this kindness of yours."
"Would you not do the same for me? I imagine, between ourselves, that
the judge has been a good deal flustered with this trial and the
intervention of Don Giustino. Perhaps he lost his head. We are all
liable to that, are we not? He is a nervous man; but quite a good
fellow if one keeps on the right side of him. It is so easy to keep on
the right side of people. I often wonder, Madame Steynlin, why men are
so full of bitterness towards each other. It is one of the things I
shall never live to understand. And another is this problem of music!
Will you help me to grasp the pleasure which you seem to derive from
it? Helmholtz does not bring me much further. He explains why certain
sounds are necessarily disagreeable--"
"Oh, Mr. Keith! You would go to a professor. I fear you are not very
musical. Have you never felt inclined to cry?"
"I have. But not in a concert-room."
"Nor yet in a theatre?"
"Never," he replied, "though it saddens me a little to see grown-up men
and women stalking about in funny dressing-gowns and pretending to be
kings and queens.
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