And I knew that now it was all for me to settle.

I didn't mean to blame the audience if I didn't catch on; I knew there would be no one to blame but myself.

If I sang as well as I could, if I remembered all my business, if, in a word, I did here what I'd been doing richt along at hame and in the north of England, I needn't be afraid of the result, I was sure.
And then, I knew then, as I know noo, that when ye fail it's aye yer ain fault, one way or anither.
I wadna ha' been late that nicht for anything.

'Twas lang before ten o'clock when I was at Gatti's, waiting for it to be my turn.

I was verra tired; I'd been going aboot since the early morn, and when it had come supper time I'd been sae nervous I'd had no thought o' food, nor could I ha' eaten any, I do believe, had it been set before me.
Weel, waitin' came to an end, and they called me on.