But he thinks my coming like this a bit queer, and he's wondering what's behind it." She downed her excitement and went on in the same resolute tone she had used with such success on Nourse.

No personal conversation just yet, she would show him she meant business.
And so she stuck to the lessons.
"If you'll take me as a pupil," she said, "I'd like to begin immediately." "Let me try your voice," he proposed.

He went to the piano, and there his manner had soon changed.

From genial and curious it grew interested.

He spoke rather sharply, asking her to do this and that, and she felt as though she were being probed.