And when Dwight spied the piano there and learned of her interest in music, he insisted on trying her voice, and was loud in his praise of its promise.

Before he left, it was arranged that she should come to his studio and take lessons twice a week.

Openly his pupil now, she could speak of him to Joe, and he came to dine with them often.
How smoothly things were working out.

If there were any cloud upon the horizon it was the occasional presence of Amy's old friend, Fanny Carr.
Fanny had been abroad through the summer, but in October she had returned.

She had come to see Ethel several times, in the same determinedly friendly way; and Nourse reported that she was going frequently to see Joe at his office about her eternal money affairs.
And the fact that Joe never spoke of it only made the matter worse.