But I think I'm getting on.

Listen to me do this exercise." She sat down, and, with much conscientious effort, went over some simple bars.

Then she looked up at her companion and caught him smiling.
"Well," she exclaimed, in a pet, "you must begin at the beginning in everything, mustn't you?
Come and let me hear what you can do." "Not even so much." "Then don't laugh at a poor girl doing her best.

You have such a queer smile too; it seems both ill-natured and good-natured at the same time.
Now wait a minute till I come back." She went into an inner room, and closed the door behind her.

In five minutes it opened again.