That is better! Now I can put on my tight gloves.

Suppose I should put on the left glove on the way." Well, my young ladies, how many hours do you think all those minutes would make in a year?
But I hear you say, "What is the use of worrying to pick up all those stray minutes, like lost pins?
We have a whole hour to practise every day, when nothing prevents." Exactly, when nothing prevents.
I will now tell you a few of my secrets for piano performers.
If in piano-playing, or in any art, you wish to attain success, you must resolve to work every day, at least a little, on the technique.

Sickness and other unavoidable interruptions deprive you of days enough.
Practise always with unexhausted energy: the result will be tenfold.

Do you not frequently use the time for practising, when you have already been at work studying for five or six hours?
Have you then strength and spirit enough to practise the necessary exercises for an hour or more, and to study your music-pieces carefully and attentively, as your teacher instructed you?
Is not your mind exhausted, and are not your hands and fingers tired and stiff with writing, so that you are tempted to help out with your arms and elbows, which is worse than no practice at all?
But, my dear ladies, if you practise properly, several times every day, ten minutes at a time, your strength and your patience are usually sufficient for it; and, if you are obliged to omit your regular "hour's practice," you have, at any rate, accomplished something with your ten minutes before breakfast, or before dinner, or at any leisure moment.

So, I beg of you, let me have my minutes.
Practise often, slowly, and without pedal, not only the smaller and larger etudes, but also your pieces.