The notes are A, D, G, C." "What have you done to your lip ?" said Ronald, suddenly.
"Knocked it on the stove just now, as I bent to stoke it with my fingers, for fear of waking you.

It bled amazingly." Aubrey produced a much-stained handkerchief.
"It is curious how a tiny knock will sometimes draw as much blood as a sword-thrust.

There! The Infant is in perfect tune, so far as I can tell without the bow.

Do you mind if I just pass the bow across the strings?
After each string is perfectly tuned to a piano or organ, you must make them vibrate together in order to get the fifths perfect.

A violin or a 'cello is capable of a more complete condition of intuneness--if I may coin a word--than an organ or a piano." He took up the bow, then with careful precision sounded the strings, singly and together.