He said he had been giving Miss Dryfoos a lesson on the banjo; he had borrowed the banjo of Miss Vance.

Then he struck the chord he had been trying to teach Christine, and played over the air he had sung.
"How do you like that ?" he asked, whirling round.
"It seems rather a disrespectful little tune, somehow," said Alma, placidly.
Beaton rested his elbow on the corner of the piano and gazed dreamily at her.

"Your perceptions are wonderful.

It is disrespectful.

I played it, up there, because I felt disrespectful to them." "Do you claim that as a merit ?" "No, I state it as a fact.