I devoutly hope I may not be so thrown absolutely, for the truth is I haven't a marketable commodity.

'A little Latin, and less Greek,' German and French enough to read and understand and talk--on the surface of things--and what mathematics, history, et cetera, I have not forgotten.

I know the piano well enough to read and play an accompaniment after a fashion, and I have had some good teaching for the voice, and some experience in singing, at home and abroad.

In fact, I come nearer to a market there, I think, than in any other direction perhaps.

I have given some time to fencing in various schools, and before I left home Billy Williams would sometimes speak encouragingly of my progress with the gloves.