The first item on our program is a piano solo by Hester King." Hester was one of the best music pupils in the school.

She had a good crisp touch and considerable execution, and led off the concert with a sprightly tarantella.

A violin solo followed, by Sibyl Lee, a member of V.b., who was rather nervous, but acquitted herself fairly well on the whole.
"I thought I'd break down," she confided to her friends.

"The sight of all those eyes staring at me quite put me off.

I don't wonder blind musicians are generally successes, they can't see the audience.