I began to fear for the balance of my well-ordered mind." "Well," said Myra, coming out from behind her red parasol, "you and Dal can have orgies of music here if you want them.

You will find a piano in the drawing-room and another in the hall, and a Bechstein grand in the billiard-room.

That is where I hold the practices for the men and maids.

I could not make up my mind which makers I really preferred, Erard, Broadwood, Collard, or Bechstein; so by degrees I collected one of each.

And after all I think I play best upon the little cottage piano we had in the school-room at home.