Herr Brachmann was an amiable dragon in music, and insisted on your knowing what you did know." "I thought you would say all this, but it doesn't account for your singing." "What do you mean ?" "I don't know exactly.

There is something you did not get from Herr Brachmann--scarcely from nature.

It suggests what artists call feeling, and more." "Oh, every one has his own method," said Madge, carelessly, and yet with a visible increase of color.
"'Method,' do you call it?
I'm half inclined to think that it might be akin to madness were you very unhappy.

The human voice often has a strange power over me, and I have a theory that it may reveal character more than people imagine.

Why shouldn't it?
It is the chief medium of our expression, and we may even unconsciously reveal ourselves in our tones." "When were you so fanciful before?
What does a professional reveal ?" "Chiefly that she is a trained professional, and yet even the most blase among them give hints as to the compass of their woman-nature.
I think their characters are often suggested quite definitely by their tones.