She was behind the counter in a refreshment-room, poor innocent, rinsing wine-glasses, and singing over her work.

Good Heavens, such singing! Her upper notes electrified me.

I said to myself; 'Here is a born prima donna--I will bring her out!' She is the third I have brought out in my time.

I shall take her to Italy when her education is sufficiently advanced, and perfect her at Milan.

In that unsophisticated girl, my dear lady, you see one of the future Queens of Song.