I do wish that I had had time to know more of music.

What little I play I learned from a pianola." "A what ?" she gasped.
He laughed in a half-embarrassed way.
"A pianola," he repeated.

"You see I've always been hungry for music, and while my kid brother was still in college I began to be able to afford things, and one of the first luxuries was a pianola.

You know the machine has a little lever which throws the keys in or out of engagement, so that you can play it as a regular piano if you wish, and if you leave the keys engaged while you are playing the rolls, they work up and down; so by watching these I gradually learned to pick out my favorite tunes by hand.

I couldn't play them so well by myself as the rolls played them, but somehow or other they gave me more satisfaction." Miss Stevens did not laugh.