How many hours a day do you make her practise?
Don't you make her exert herself too much?
Has she talent?
Isn't she sickly?
DOMINIE.

Don't you think she looks in good health, madam,--tall and strong for her years?
MADAME, of the Tz.family.But perhaps she might look more cheerful, if she was not obliged to play on the piano so much.
DOMINIE (_bowing_).

I can't exactly say.
ZACH (_suddenly interrupting, and holding Dominie by the button-hole_).
They say you torment and ill-treat your daughters dreadfully; that the eldest was obliged to practise day and night.

Well, you shall hear my Stock play this evening, who, some time, by the grace of God, is to take the place of Thalberg in the world.

Now give me your opinion freely (of course, I was only to praise): we should like very much to hear what you think about his playing, though perhaps Mr.Buffalo may not agree with you.
(_Mr.Buffalo is looking through the music-case and picking out all the Etudes, by listening to which Dominie is to earn his supper._) DOMINIE (_resigned and foreseeing that he shall be bored_).