"You play very cleverly." "Oh, so can anybody--that's nothing." "Does Miss Madeley play at all ?" "No.

She's always saying she wishes she could but I tell her, what does it matter?
She knows no end of things that I don't, and I'd a good deal rather have that." "She reads a good deal, I suppose ?" "Oh, I should think she does, just! And she can speak French." "Indeed?
How did she learn ?" "At the place where she was bookkeeper there was a young lady from Paris, and they shared lodgings, and Eve learnt it from her.

Then her friend went to Paris again, and Eve wanted very much to go with her, but she didn't see how to manage it.

Eve," she added, with a laugh, "is always wanting to do something that's impossible." A week later, Hilliard again called at the music-shop, and talked for half an hour with Miss Ringrose, who had no fresh news from Eve.

His visits were repeated at intervals of a few days, and at length, towards the end of June, he learnt that Miss Madeley was about to return to London; she had obtained a new engagement, at the establishment in Holborn of which Patty had spoken.
"And will she come back to her old lodgings ?" he inquired.
Patty shook her head.
"She'll stay with me.