(For the literary part of a composer's business Gideon was well equipped.) 'How very strange to have all these directions, and only three or four notes! O, here's another with some more.

Andante patetico.' And she began to glance over the music.

'O dear me,' she thought, 'he must be terribly modern! It all seems discords to me.

Let's try the air.

It is very strange, it seems familiar.' She began to sing it, and suddenly broke off with laughter.