She tried to think that she was only playing an accompaniment for Garnet.
The piece was not difficult, it was in D, quite the easiest key for the guitar, with very few accidentals or high positions.

She took courage, and struck her strings crisply, so that the tone rang out well.

Her instrument was a good one, very true and mellow, and her mother had taught her the liquid Spanish touch which showed it to its best advantage.

Garnet also was doing her best.

Her plectrum vibrated evenly and rapidly, and the metallic twang, her gravest fault, was not nearly so evident as usual.