What says Will Congreve?
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast?
Listen." A girl slight in figure but harmoniously proportioned had placed herself about two yards from the bow window.

She fixed her eyes on Gay and her pretty mouth curved into a smile.

Then she sang.

The ditty was "Cold and Raw," a ballad that two hundred years ago or so, never failed to delight everybody from the highest to the lowest.

She gave it with natural feeling and without any attempt at display.