"In such a matter as this, the opinion of an expert is everything.

I am going to have one of the principal musicians of the town go and try them all, and tell me which we ought to have." "And while he's about it," said Alice, "you might ask him to make a little list of some of the new music.

I've got way behind the times, being without a piano so long.

Tell him not any VERY difficult pieces, you know." "Yes, I know," put in Theron, almost hastily, and began talking of other things.

His conversation was of the most rambling and desultory sort, because all the while the two lobes of his brain, as it were, kept up a dispute as to whether Alice ought to have been told that this "principal musician" was of her own sex.