You must keep your hand and arm so." He held them in position.

"There! Now strike with your right hand.

See ?" "I don't believe I can ever learn," said the girl, with a fond upward look at him.
"Oh yes, you can," said Beaton.
They both ignored Dryfoos in the little play of protests which followed, and he said, half jocosely, half suspiciously, "And is the banjo the fashion, now ?" He remembered it as the emblem of low-down show business, and associated it with end-men and blackened faces and grotesque shirt-collars.
"It's all the rage," Mela shouted, in answer for all.

"Everybody plays it.

Mr.Beaton borrowed this from a lady friend of his." "Humph! Pity I got you a piano, then," said Dryfoos.