He promised me, and went away.

In the evening he arrived with his violin, and they played together.

But for a long time things did not go well; we had not the necessary music, and that which we had my wife could not play at sight.
I amused myself with their difficulties.

I aided them, I made proposals, and they finally executed a few pieces,--songs without words, and a little sonata by Mozart.

He played in a marvellous manner.