Then I said: 'Get down that dark brown one, third from the end.' They lifted it down, and, from the moment I touched it, I knew it must be mine! They told me it was made at Prague, a hundred and fifty years ago, and its price was three thousand marks.

Luckily, I had my cheque-book in my pocket, also my card, Helen's card, my publisher's letter of introduction to the firm here, and my own letter of credit from my bankers.

So they expressed themselves willing to take my cheque.
I wrote it then and there, and marched out with the Infant.

I first called it the Infant on the stairs, as we were leaving Zimmermann's, because I almost bumped its head! Isn't it a beauty ?" "Undoubtedly it is." "They put on a new set of the very best strings," continued Ronnie; "supplied me with a good bow, and threw in a cake of rosin." "What did you pay for the organ ?" inquired Aubrey Treherne.
"Twenty-four pounds.

Helen would not have a more expensive one.