"But stop teasing me, and let Mrs.Gray go on with her story." "When the baby sister, whose name was Edith, was about three years old, the beautiful young mother died and left the husband inconsolable.

A year later he was killed in a railroad accident, and the elder sister, named Margaret, was left with only little Edith to comfort her.

The father had been a rich man, so they had no anxiety about money, and lived on year after year in their beautiful old home, with everything heart could wish.
"As Edith grew older, she developed a decided talent for music, and when she was fifteen Margaret decided to take her abroad and allow her to enter one of the great conservatories of Europe.

They went to Leipsic, and Edith, who had high hopes of one day becoming a concert pianiste, continued her studies under the best instructors that money could procure.

Things ran along smoothly until Edith met a young Italian named Guido Savelli, who was studying the violin at the same conservatory.