Wisocki, the pianist, also a pupil of his, took me to him.

Pan Elsner lives in the Dom Pyarow [House of Piarists].

One has to start early if one wishes to find him at home; for soon after breakfast he goes out, and rarely returns to his cell before evening.

He inhabits, like a genuine church composer, two cells of the old Piarist Monastery in Jesuit Street, and in the dark passages which lead to his rooms one sees here and there faded laid-aside pictures of saints lying about, and old church banners hanging down.

The old gentleman was still in bed when we arrived, and sent his servant to ask us to wait a little in the anteroom, promising to be with us immediately.