She kept bravely at it, however, and managed to reach the end of the first movement, where she called a halt.
"It's not talking--it's only stuttering and stammering on the piano," she apologized.
Dr.Linton laughed.

Her remark had evidently pleased him.

He always liked a pupil who fell in with his humor.
"You've the elements of speech in you, though you're still in the prattling-baby stage," he conceded.

"It's something, at any rate, to find there's material to work upon.

Some people wouldn't make musicians if they practised for a hundred years.