The introduction begins with _e_ flat in unison.

Lizzie strikes _e_ in unison and the same in the bass, and exclaims: "There, mamma, didn't I tell you so?
I don't remember it now." Mr.Shepard enters, steps up hastily, and puts her finger on _e_ flat._) SHEPARD.

Pardon me, Herr Dominie, I will only set her going: it makes her a little confused to play before such connoisseurs; she loses her eyesight.

Don't you see, Lizzie, there are three flats in the signature?
JOHN S.Courage now! Aha! Lizzie can't get at the pedal, the bull-dog is lying over it.

John, take him out.
(_After the removal of the bull-dog, Lizzie plays as far as the fourth bar, when she strikes _c_ sharp instead of _c_, and stops._) MRS.